The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking ...

The Parker Solar Probe will swoop just 6.1 million kilometers above the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve. Scientists are thrilled at what we might learn ...

Feb. 5, 2025 — There's a 26 per cent annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight area, according to a recent study. While the chance of ...

ETtech Shrinivas R Kulkarni, George Ellery Hale professor of astronomy and planetary science, Caltech Missions like manned space stations, lunar bases, or interplanetary exploration are aspirational ...

With climate change, economic insecurity, and pandemics stressing the world's resources, why spend all this money on space exploration? It's easy to see why this argument comes up: There are big ...

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies roughly 13 billion light years away. Their study, published in The ...

SpaceX's massive rocket aims for new milestones in reusability and in-space maneuvers, paving the way for lunar and Mars missions. NASA and Russia at odds over cause and severity of the ...

The Artemis Accords has just gained its 53rd member nation, bolstering NASA's efforts to establish peaceful and cooperative international space exploration. Finland joined NASA's Artemis Accords ...

President Donald Trump's new administration is likely to do away with the White House's National Space Council, a cabinet policy panel that lobbyists at Elon Musk's SpaceX have been pushing to axe ...

boosted by his vow to champion American space exploration during his administration. Set against this backdrop, space-launch company Rocket Lab USA Inc. RKLB and space-exploration company ...

Editor's note: Rocket Lab has delayed the launch of the IOT 4 You and Me mission in order to ensure the mission does not interfere with "space traffic from other satellites and the ISS," according ...

The author and editors take ultimate responsibility for the content. The entrepreneur Elon Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, in 2002 to reduce space transportation ...