An aerospace engineer explains why NASA, Space Force and other agencies are using or testing aerobraking for more ...

Observers say proposed cuts to science and other programs undermine increased funding for human space exploration efforts.

Trump’s proposal cuts SpaceX competitors out of the NASA budget and could add billions to the company’s defense contracts.

The Conroy Virtus was a bold Cold War-era plan to transform two B-52 bombers into a single, twin-fuselage mega-plane capable of launching the Space Shuttle from 40,000 feet. Designed to ferry rockets, ...

The Space Shuttle looks all majestic when it’s blazing through the heavens. When it’s back down on the ground? Not so great. It can’t get far under its own steam, and even US freeways aren’t monstrous ...

Asteroid 2025 HY2, an Apollo-class asteroid, will pass Earth on May 7, 2025, at a speed of 48,904 km/h. Though passing at a ...

Boeing announced in January 2023 that it intended to fly a full-scale demonstrator aircraft for the NASA SFD program by 2028.

Find out about the integration of the Space Launch System rocket’s upper stage, which brings NASA's Artemis II crewed test ...

It's been more than six decades since Alan Shepard launched on his famous suborbital flight. What would think of the U.S. space program today?

It’s slightly smaller than the 2,354-piece Discovery set that debuted in 2021, but Lego’s new Space Shuttle Enterprise is ...

On May 18, 2025, Lego will release the new Shuttle Carrier Aircraft kit that celebrates the storied space shuttle Enterprise ...