The Nyx capsule, which carried the ashes and DNA of 166 deceased participants courtesy of Texas-based company Celestis, ...

Celestis, which recently conducted a mission from California, will send cremated remains or human DNA to outer space for ...

Celestis offers various tiers of space memorial services that range all the way to launching remains into deep space. Their ...

The ashes were lost alongside a collection of cannabis plant matter and seeds donated by a citizen science project seeking to ...

After successfully orbiting two rounds around the Earth, Falcon 9 was on its last stage of returning when communication ...

We've sent some pretty interesting payloads to space since the first satellite (Sputnik 1) launched on October 4, 1957. As ...

What might go wrong when a spacecraft lands back from orbit, bearing not just the remains of 166 people but the hopes of ...

Unconventional payloads aboard an Exploration Company capsule were lost at sea when it crashed into the ocean on Tuesday.

The spacecraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean after a parachute failure, ending a bold experiment in space biology and ...

The Nyx module reached low-Earth orbit, where it traveled for three hours at about 17,000 miles per hour and completed two full orbits around Earth.

A European company that seeks to develop orbital spacecraft for cargo, and eventually humans, took a step forward this week ...