Forgotten Genius Friday When people think about space exploration, they often remember the astronauts who traveled beyond Earth. But behind every mission are engineers, scientists, and inventors who ...

Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility and cloud-computing provider of the emerging space economy. That potential fueled excitement around the long-anticipated initial ...

SpaceX will soon test reentry vehicles that could enable in-space manufacturing and rapid point-to-point cargo delivery, according to documents from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). On May ...

The Space Force expects Cape Canaveral SFS to support about 1,200 annual launches by 2036. Credit: U.S. Space Force Amid a record-high budget request, the U.S. Space Force is tackling a range of new ...

NASA plans to open up competition for control over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which has historically been operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). This move is part of ...

THOMAS TWP, MI — Saginaw Control & Engineering will expand its operations in Saginaw Township and Thomas Township with a $50 million investment that will create 95 new jobs, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ...

Bound for the Moon, astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft experienced a challenge familiar to many of us back here on terra firma: Microsoft Outlook. Commander Reid Wiseman radioed ...

When NASA launches its first crewed moon mission into space in more than 50 years on Wednesday afternoon, a North Carolina State University graduate will make history. Christina Koch will be the first ...

Space is unforgiving about inefficiency. Every kilogram launched costs somewhere between $2,000 and $10,000 depending on the vehicle – and that’s on a good day with a favorable contract. In that ...

The Apollo space missions of the 1960s, which took humans to the moon for the first time, relied on brute-force propulsion more than technological sophistication. The onboard Apollo Guidance Computer ...

“Open Space,” by David Ariosto, suggests there are few limits on human ingenuity that could prevent us from colonizing the cosmos. By Adam Becker Adam Becker is the author, most recently, of “More ...