For the first time in its 25-year history, all eight docking ports on the International Space Station are occupied, according to NASA. The rare "orbital traffic jam" occurred after Northrop Grumman's ...

Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti receives funding from NASA and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). He teaches space systems engineering and mission design and management at the University ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches its new orbital rocket for the first time with two NASA satellites that will fly to Mars to study the red planet’s atmosphere. Photo: Joe Skipper/Reuters Elon Musk and ...

The US recently announced plans under its Lunar Fission Surface Power Project to deploy a small nuclear reactor on the moon by the early 2030s. It could be the first attempt to establish a permanent ...

Tulane quarterback Jake Retzlaff recalls being “devastated” when it became clear last spring that he would be unable to play his final season of college football at BYU.

Rockets aren’t the only way to reach space and scientists are already dreaming up alternatives. From space elevators to magnetic launch systems, this video explores the wild, real, and surprisingly ...

There’s a race in China among several companies vying to become the next to launch and land an orbital-class rocket, and the starting gun could go off as soon as tonight. LandSpace, one of several ...

Corin Cesaric is a Flex Editor at CNET. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Before joining CNET, she covered crime at People Magazine and ...