Space Exploration

Soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman, and … ? In the most recent development in the negotiations over President Trump’s contentious proposal to create a Space Force, acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has proposed that the…

Musk’s plans have potentially dire consequences for alien life, astronauts and the environment. Elon Musk, founder of private space-faring company SpaceX, recently unveiled his new Starship craft. Amazingly, it is designed to carry up to 100 crew members…

On Nov. 11, people across most of the world can catch the planet Mercury passing across the sun. This rare event won’t be seen from Earth again until 2032. The smallest planet in the solar system is…

Since the retirement of NASA’s space shuttle fleet in 2011, there’s been just one vehicle ferrying crewmembers to and from the International Space Station (ISS): Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft. So, for the past seven years, the…

And technicians have figured out why one main parachute didn’t deploy as planned. Boeing’s astronaut taxi remains on track for a December demonstration flight to the International Space Station (ISS) after passing a key safety test earlier…

It’s a long way down as a rocket and its fairing part ways during a launch. An incredible video shows that journey for the nose cone SpaceX will reuse during its next Falcon 9 launch. SpaceX is…

The big spaceship-rocket duo will use just $900,000 of fuel per launch. SAN FRANCISCO — Each flight of SpaceX’s big Mars-colonizing spacecraft will have a very small price tag, if all goes according to plan.…

How possible is the Von Braun Rotating Space Station? Will you be planning a trip to an orbiting “space hotel” as early as 2025?  The Gateway Foundation, a private company developing this “space hotel,” thinks…

To understand the cosmos we rely on models, and these models are constantly being refined using new observations and theories. Over the last few years, it has become clear that the way we see the…

A NASA probe orbiting Mars has captured new photos of two dead spacecraft frozen in place at their Red Planet graves. The photos were taken by NASA’s powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which has been circling the…

Featured Image: The hand might look like an X-ray from the doctor’s office, but it is actually a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded. NASA’s NuSTAR spacecraft has imaged the structure in…

A HUGE cigar-shaped object spotted tumbling through our solar system last year may have been an alien spacecraft sent to investigate Earth, astronomers from Harvard University have suggested. We suggested this a few years ago…

Actually, our planet is usually quite large: flights between the continents take half a day, cruises over oceans weeks. Compared to the expansion of the earth, we feel ourselves small. Often, however, the vast expanses beyond…