Should the Cygnus XL be able to proceed toward the ISS, NASA astronaut and current ISS inhabitant Jonny Kim will capture the vehicle using the space station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm before guiding it ...

Did you know that the current CO2 concentration in the Earth's atmosphere has peaked in the last million years? A further ...

At the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the Long March 2C rocket, carrying the Yuan Zheng-1S upper stage, soared into the morning light, accurately placing the world's first satellite equipped with ...

Government-funded academic research (GoFAR), lately the subject of across-the-board cuts in the U.S., is one of the engines ...

How can nuclear propulsion help improve deep space missions by significantly reducing the amount of time to reach Mars and beyond? This is what a recent st | Space ...

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves ...

The sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows. Solar activity is known to fluctuate in cycles of 11 years, but there are longer-term variations that can last decades. Case ...

NASA has responded to speculation that mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is actually an alien starship preparing to invade Earth.

The Cygnus XL spacecraft looks a lot like Northrop's previous missions to the station. It has a service module manufactured at the company's factory in Northern Virginia. This segment of the ...

This mission will showcase the capabilities of Astranis and Impulse to rapidly deploy satellites to geostationary orbit without the use of a Heavy-class rocket, a mission profile appealing to ...

Busek Co., a leading manufacturer of high-performance electric propulsion technology for spaceflight, and Maxar Space Systems ...

Scientists have developed a new form of nuclear propulsion that they claim could slash mission times to Mars and enable ...