On May 21, 2010, Japan launched the first solar sail into space. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Solar ...
CAS Space, a leading commercial rocket maker, is developing a new type of reusable spacecraft to facilitate scientific experiments and in-orbit manufacturing, according to a senior researcher. Wang ...
Jared Isaacman explained why nuclear-powered spacecraft like SR-1 Freedom are key to sending astronauts to Mars and bringing ...
NASA's Psyche flyby of Mars highlights how gravity assists help spacecraft gain speed, conserve fuel and travel across the ...
The liquid iron in Earth's outer core doesn't always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way, ESA ...
US technology company L3Harris Technologies announced it has finalised the design of a next-generation nuclear-based power ...
The fruition of space-based solar power (SBSP) has long been stymied by a lack of enabling technologies, but thanks to a ...
Butch Wilmore, a former NASA astronaut, has spent his career pushing the limits of human spaceflight, logging hundreds of ...
At 05:52 Central European time on 19 May 2026, a Vega-C rocket climbed away from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, ...
It's true, though: outer space does have a smell, or rather, many smells. The cosmos isn't sterile or empty, after all. It's ...
Aerospace engineers have to consider numerous factors when designing a spacecraft, but one that comes up more and more often ...