SpaceX's recent IPO highlights the evolving space economy, with its valuation fluctuating between $1.9 and $2.3 trillion. The ...

NASA aims to travel to the moon again—and beyond. Here’s a look at the 21st-century race to send humans into space.

The space race is filled with glamorous rockets, astronauts and sparkling new space stations, but people rarely think about ...

The proliferation of nuclear power in space got a little more real Tuesday with the launch of a small satellite developed by ...

As NASA moves closer to establishing a permanent human presence on the Moon through the Artemis program, the agency is ...

NASA is testing a next-generation space computer chip that could give spacecraft the ability to operate far more independently in deep space. The radiation-hardened processor is showing performance ...

NASA’s PExT terminal has shown that spacecraft can seamlessly communicate through multiple government and commercial networks, a major step beyond traditional single-network systems. The mission is ...

When rockets fire into space, the insides of their engines become an extreme environment where temperatures soar and tiny particles are thrown around at hypersonic speeds. These particles behave in ...

The second batch of in-orbit test results from the Qingzhou cargo spacecraft test vehicle was released on Monday, covering ...

The technology could be used to send probes across interstellar space to other star systems.

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...