As new rockets and space companies arrive on the scene, this workhorse of a rocket, the Falcon 9, remains the most common ...

Even though Starship has suffered major setbacks on its past two flights, NASA is adding the still-experimental rocket to its launch provider contract with SpaceX. NASA announced the addition ...

Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

Dozens of NASA's spaceflight missions that launched from Florida could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump ...

Mars has received considerable attention in the past few decades, thanks to the many robotic missions exploring it to learn more about its past. NASA and China plan to send astronauts/taikonauts there ...

This short explainer simplifies the concept of the "White Man's Burden," a phrase used to justify Western imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Learn how this ideology framed colonial ...

It took 13 years, 15 nations, and roughly $100 billion to build the International Space Station (ISS). But one company thinks ...

Thirty years ago, terraforming Mars wasn’t just hard — it was impossible,” said Erika DeBenedictis, CEO of Pioneer Labs. Now, ...

While on Titan, Dragonfly will utilize its rotorcraft design to fly around the methane-filled world and explore Titan’s chemistry and how life may have begun on Earth. Using a suite of four ...

Astronomers are developing plans and technology for increasingly powerful space telescopes. For instance, NASA is working on its proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory, which would take ultrasharp ...

Though full terraforming may take centuries, if not millennia, the long-term goal would be a Mars with stable liquid water, ...

What goes up must come down, and earlier this week yet another of SpaceX's Starships, the biggest and most powerful type of ...