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 ...
The fruition of space-based solar power (SBSP) has long been stymied by a lack of enabling technologies, but thanks to a ...
The liquid iron in Earth's outer core doesn't always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way, ESA ...
At 05:52 Central European time on 19 May 2026, a Vega-C rocket climbed away from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, ...
SpaceX has now published the S1-prospectus for the IPO planned in June: 277 densely printed pages plus 100 pages of ...
Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the ...
A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid swings past Mars this week for a gravity boost, snapping thousands of ...
Before experiments reach orbit, vacuum technology recreates the silence of space on Earth — enabling breakthroughs that ...
SpaceX seems to have mistaken shooting for the moon with shooting at the moon. Forecast to occur on Aug. 5, a five-story-long ...