SpaceX's recent IPO highlights the evolving space economy, with its valuation fluctuating between $1.9 and $2.3 trillion. The ...

NASA aims to travel to the moon again—and beyond. Here’s a look at the 21st-century race to send humans into space.

The space race is filled with glamorous rockets, astronauts and sparkling new space stations, but people rarely think about ...

A breakthrough in advanced propulsion technology has taken a significant step toward commercial reality after Venus Aerospace ...

A new study suggests spacecraft exhaust could quickly contaminate the moon's most scientifically valuable regions, ...

When rockets fire into space, the insides of their engines become an extreme environment where temperatures soar and tiny particles are thrown around at hypersonic speeds. These particles behave in ...

NASA’s PExT terminal has shown that spacecraft can seamlessly communicate through multiple government and commercial networks, a major step beyond traditional single-network systems. The mission is ...

Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make it a reality. The Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission is scheduled for launch ...

For NASA's next generation of deep-space exploration missions, spacecraft may need to refuel in Earth orbit before pushing farther into the solar system. Similar to how a gas pump needs a nozzle to ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

As NASA moves closer to establishing a permanent human presence on the Moon through the Artemis program, the agency is ...