Using debris modeling and simulations, the U.S. Space Force, the branch of the military that deals with the nation’s space ...

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt aims to fly the first private space telescope by 2029. Will it pave the way for more private ...

Space insurance traces its roots to 1965, when Lloyd’s of London underwrote the first satellite policy for Intelsat I, known ...

In July 1969, the Soviet N-1 moon rocket detonated at Baikonur in one of history’s most powerful non-nuclear explosions, just weeks before Apollo 11. From intelligence briefings and rushed launch ...

In October 1960, a rushed Soviet missile test at Baikonur ended in a massive explosion that killed over a hundred people and was erased from public record. Decades later, declassified files and ...

Firefly Aerospace will upgrade its Alpha launch vehicle, making changes intended to improve the reliability of a rocket that ...

SpaceX is now seeking FAA approval to add new trajectories as Starship strives to reach orbit. Under the plan, the rocket ...

The first crewed spaceflight of NASA’s Artemis program will break records, achieve historic firsts, and pave the way for ...

As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...

Since then the country has put a rover on Mars and built one of the two operational space stations orbiting Earth. Now its ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...