And despite the demo space suit that Axiom Space showed off being a dark grey color, the finished product will be white. Spacesuits are white because the color helps reflect heat.

AMSTERDAM — The Japanese military has selected companies Space One and Space BD to launch a small satellite. The companies announced May 28 that they won a contract from the Japan Ministry of ...

In 1961, as NASA prepared to send its first American into space, everyone was thinking about science and other major stuff. Nobody, it seems, was thinking about urination.

“There was a teddy bear which is wearing a cosmonaut space suit. This teddy bear is from a Hungarian TV show for kids,” he said, noting it went along for the ride nearly 50 years ago.

It can move payloads up to 300 kg around in space, and for a 100 kg payload, it offers 900 m/s of Delta-V. With Mira, Impulse sought to tackle the problem of mobility once a spacecraft reached orbit.

Liftoff of the NS-32 mission is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. ET today (May 31). Blue Origin is gearing up for the launch of its next space tourism flight, and you can watch the mission live here at ...

Still, launching telescopes into space is a lot of trouble and expense. Official work on Hubble started in the 1970s, but delays kept it on the ground for decades.

The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again, discovering the "mother of all early galaxies," a record-breaking distant object that existed just 280 billion years after the Big Bang.

China is developing a rapid-response space defence system to intercept suspicious spacecraft and push them away, according to a senior scientist. If an unidentified object approaches China’s ...

The Space Force this week revealed a new model for upgrading its East and West Coast ranges, shifting upfront costs that used to be borne by the government to the commercial launch companies that ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force awarded Jacobs Technology a contract worth up to $4 billion over 10 years to provide engineering and technical services at the nation’s primary space launch ...

The Space Force has selected BAE Systems to provide 10 satellites for the second phase of its Medium Earth Orbit Missile Warning and Tracking program, awarding the company a $1.2 billion contract.