“When the first results came in, we realized that we had literally struck gold,” Nils Messling, a geochemist at Göttingen ...

Space is getting increasingly crowded and experts are sounding the alarm. In a report, the European Space Agency said around 1,200 pieces of rocket and satellite debris fell back to Earth last year.

Artemis 2's Space Launch System rocket core stage was fitted with 4 RS-25 engines at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Footage courtesy: NASA/Evan Deroche/Steven Seipel/Eric ...

Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing machines that can grow valuable materials in orbit that could be used in medicine ...

American military leaders are speaking more openly than ever about fighting in space — not just defending it. At the annual Space Symposium last month, senior officials conveyed a sharper ...

The Oracle-M spacecraft are specifically designed to track objects in cislunar space, the vast region between Earth and the moon. The U.S. Space Force tested new thrusters designed for satellites ...

A space career field for enlisted soldiers is coming to the Army as the U.S. builds up its space-based capabilities. The Army is planning for about 900 40D space operations specialists who would ...

Space and Time, a blockchain project supported by Microsoft, has launched its public, permissionless mainnet to bring zero-knowledge (ZK)-proven data infrastructure to crypto applications.

May 2, 2025 was National Space Day, an occasion to reflect on the history of the American spaceflight program for all its triumphs and tragedies, as well as to pause and consider all of the ...

The White House is reviving the National Space Council, a historically influential policy body that could help guide the administration’s ambitious space goals, while acting as a counterbalance ...

India is conducting a rare and very sophisticated "dogfight" in space between a 'chaser' and 'target' satellite orbiting nearly 500 kilometers above the Earth. This comes close on the heels of ...

Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey, commander of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, speaks at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. Credit: U.S. Army photo by Sgt. ZaBarr Jones WASHINGTON ...