NASA awarded SpaceX the massive contract to develop the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle (USDV) last month. It won the award — over the only other bidder, Northrop Grumman — in part because the design leverages so much flight-proven hardware, NASA said in a source selection statement published Tuesday.

Aboard the International Space Station, NASA discovered 13 strains of a superbug, a multidrug-resistant bacterium. Its name? Enterobacter bugandensis.

NASA wants SpaceX to help end the International Space Station and push it into the ocean. They plan to do it with a superpowered Dragon spacecraft.

SpaceX will use a powerful, souped-up capsule to shove the International Space Station out of orbit once time is up for the sprawling lab

SpaceX is building a souped-up version of its cargo Dragon spacecraft to drive the International Space Station out of orbit for a controlled re-entry and breakup over an uninhabited stretch of ocean when the lab is finally retired in the 2030 timeframe,

NASA plans to pay Elon Musk close to $850 million to dispose of its old space station. Other companies will pay him even more money to replace it.

Two former space agency leaders called for the International Space Station to be preserved for future generations in an open letter published earlier this month. SpaceX is currently slated to scrap the station by 2030 in a controlled deorbiting,

NASA has finally awarded someone with the directive to complete its ISS deorbit plans. Here's everything we know.

This initiative established by privately held Starlab with assistance from Northrop Grumman, Hilton Hotels, and Airbus, has roughly doubled in size over the last couple of months with the inclusion of Japan's Mitsubishi, Canada's MDA Space, and most recently, America's Palantir Technologies ( PLTR 1.56%).

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spent an unexpected Fourth of July aboard the International Space Station—but it was hardly a patriotic display of engineering prowess.

The International Space Station, weighing in at nearly 1 million pounds, will meet a dramatic death. After breaking apart and largely vaporizing while falling through Earth's atmosphere, the leftover charred chunks will plunge into a remote ocean,