NASA's successor to the Kepler mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is already paying dividends. The satellite was only launched in April and spent…
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa signed with SpaceX to fly around the moon on the company's next-generation rocket, CEO Elon Musk announced last week. The…
At Spaceport America in New Mexico, a test version of the umbrella-like shield called Adaptable Deployable Entry and Placement Technology (ADEPT) was one of NASA…
Air transport company Ana Holdings, together with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), has launched a new programme, AVATAR X, to boost space exploration using…
Technology drives exploration. For 60 years, we have advanced technology to meet the rigorous needs of our missions. From GPS navigation to water filtration…
SpaceX has announced that it has signed the first space tourist to fly around the Moon. The announcement came as a tweet posted late Thursday.…
NASA's Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on Aug. 9, 2018, producing a 360-degree panorama of its current location on Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge. The…
For more than a century, the scientific community has kicked around the idea of space elevators. Specifics vary, but the basic design involves a vehicle…
Over a period of seven months in 2017, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed a beautiful display of northern lights over Saturn's north pole. Earth's northern…
A leak on board the International Space Station – ISS – has been fixed after the source was traced to the Russian segment of the…
It has been almost two years since NASA launched its asteroid hunter OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) to space, and for…
NASA officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) confirmed the first definitive evidence of water on the surface of the Moon, settling a decades-long debate…
Microsoft Founder Paul Allen's space company Stratolaunch has introduced a whole family of rockets that they plan to use when sending satellites to space in…
China's space agency this week shared new details about its upcoming Chang'e-4 mission, which aims to launch two robots to the far side of the…
India seems to seriously want to take up the battle with the world's leading space nations and now planning to send a manned spacecraft to…
Last week, NASA activated its planet-telescope telescope TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) but before that, the telescope was tested by taking some pictures. The photo…
Virgin Galactic successfully flew its spaceplane during another powered flight test over the Mojave desert — sending the vehicle to its highest altitude yet. It…
Until recently, no Falcon 9 booster has flown more than twice, but that changed with a rocket that launched last week. For the first time,…
The idea of the existence of extraterrestrial life has probably not existed at all times, as our understanding of the universe has increased rapidly…
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has revealed a stunning close-up shot of the asteroid Ryugu captured by its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft. Here you can see…