The X-38—had it gone operational—would not have been the first reusable spacecraft. But it helped lay the groundwork for ...

"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. LoxSat has undergone testing at Kennedy Space Center, and in the coming months ...

"The data from the termination shock encounter will be a treasure trove for space physicists worldwide who are eager to understand how this vast boundary works." NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

HELSINKI — China will launch a pair of low-cost space station resupply spacecraft this year on new commercial launch vehicles, highlighting advances for the country’s space ecosystem.

The unexpected sidelining of its director raises questions about the future of the satellite-acquisition “constructive ...

and companies and individuals are free to land their space objects – including satellites, human-crewed and robotic spacecraft and human-inhabited facilities – on celestial bodies and conduct ...

A mockup of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer, with the Moon in background. Illustration: Lockheed Martin Space NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer is officially in Florida and integrated with a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to a faraway planet involves lots of loop-de ...

An uncrewed spacecraft just snapped an iconic portrait of the blue marble from space. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon ...

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 ...