Artemis II, the next mission in NASA’s Artemis program to explore the Moon, is scheduled to launch from Florida within the coming weeks. The mission will be the first crewed mission to the vicinity of ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.

Deep space travel isn’t limited by imagination—it’s limited by physics. The distances between stars are so vast that even our fastest probes would take tens of thousands of years to arrive. Energy ...

An artist’s conception shows the Orion spacecraft’s main engine firing during a lunar flyby, surrounded by eight auxiliary engines built by L3Harris’ Aerojet Redmond facility. (NASA Illustration) ...

As space travel advances, colonization of other planets edges closer to reality. But should we spread to other parts of the galaxy? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Space Forge is on a mission to manufacture semiconductors in space—no humans required. And on Wednesday the U.K.-based aerospace startup announced that it had taken a major step toward that goal by ...

In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth traveling for. In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions ...

Dec. 22, 2015, was a milestone in the history of space travel. On the night of Dec. 21 to 22, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral and successfully deployed 11 communications satellites into ...

Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, a 33-year-old aerospace engineer from Germany, just made history as the first wheelchair user to travel to space. Benthaus joined a roughly ten-minute commercial flight ...

A 33-year-old aerospace engineer has made space travel history, becoming the first person who uses a wheelchair to pass the boundary of outer space. Michaela "Michi" Benthaus, a German aerospace ...

When Elon Musk announced that he was taking SpaceX public with an initial public offering that would give the rocket company a $1.5 trillion valuation, shock waves erupted across the commercial space ...