Space enthusiasts who flocked to Titusville, Florida, to get a glimpse of NASA's Artemis 1 rocket launch to the Moon, leave after the second attempt to launch the rocket off the ground was canceled.

US space agency NASA aborts its second attempt to launch the debut test flight of its next-generation rocket marking the first mission of its moon-to-Mars Artemis program due to a fuel leak.

The last humans to walk on the moon were the two-man descent team of Apollo 17 in 1972.

Russia says it will pull out of the International Space Station (ISS) after the country’s current commitment expires at the end of 2024, ending its decades-long partnership with NASA at the orbiting outpost.

NASA’s administrator has said China is contemplating a "takeover" of the Moon as part of its military space program.

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered the most distant individual star on record, a bright behemoth they nicknamed Earendel - Old English for "morning star".

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has neared its gravitational parking space in orbit around the sun, almost 1 million miles from Earth.