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Since the last flight of the Concorde in 2003, supersonic travel has been the province of jet fighter pilots and Felix Baumgartner.
The proposed Spaceport Colorado is moving closer to reality, with its supporters seeing it as an ideal hub to support high-speed suborbital flights with intercontinental range.
Musk said the new rocket, which he calls MCT, will be "several times" as powerful as the 1 Merlin series, and won't use Merlin's RP-1 fuel. Beyond adding that it will have "a very big core size", he declined to elaborate, promising more details
Each year that passes space missions in near Earth orbit (NEO) are fraught with greater danger. So comes the sobering conclusion of two of the world's top space agencies: America's NASA and Europe's ESA. So much flotsam and jetsam are now choking
A new report predicts that under the right conditions, space tourism could become a boom industry, generating $1.6 billion in revenue over the next decade.
Now parked in the Glenelg region on Mars, Curiosity swallows its first dirt sample intended for science.
J. Craig Venter may have just started a race to discover alien life on the Red Planet.
Curiosity's First Three Bites Into Martian Ground
An investigation into a rocket glitch may delay the planned Oct. 25 launch of the U.S. military's enigmatic X-37B space plane, Air Force officials say.
NASA's Curiosity rover had been on Mars 61 days when she gathered her first scoop of soil.
The most secretive commercial space company has passed a milestone after successfully test-firing part of its new rocket engine.
Astronomers involved in programme led by Yale University find extraordinary planet 5,000 light years from Earth.
Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner broke the speed of sound while falling 128,000 feet to Earth yesterday.
The most likely source of the water locked inside soils on the moon’s surface is the constant stream of charged particles from the sun known as the solar wind, a University of Michigan researcher and his colleagues have concluded.
Austrian Felix Baumgartner completes jump from the stratosphere in what could be the world's first supersonic skydive.
Successfully jumped from 128,000 feet. Landed safely. Broke speed of sound barrier, highest accent in a balloon for a human and highest freefall. But was traveling too fast to exceed longest time in freefall.
After shooting it with lasers and X-rays, NASA’s Curiosity rover has determined that a rock nicknamed “Jake Matijevic” is of a variety that no other rover has ever spotted on Mars.
How the National Radio Astronomy Observatory works in complete silence to find signals from afar
Featuring the haunting, ethereal music of Axial Ensemble, title track "Premonition."
The solar-powered rover is a contender for the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize.
The image below is of a newly discovered, and utterly surprising, spiral structure in the material around the red giant star R Sculptoris, 780 light-years from Earth.
The solar-powered rover is a contender for the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize.
Shortly before 7 a.m. ET this morning, SpaceX engineers in Hawthorne, California, will be watching their monitors as the Dragon spacecraft makes its final approach to the International Space Station
In 1960, Philip Bono, a Space Vehicle Design Specialist with the Boeing Airplane Company, envisioned a manned Mars spacecraft which would outwardly have resembled the X-20A Dyna-Soar single-seat orbital glider that the company was developing for the
Famed classical singer Sarah Brightman could be the next tourist to visit space as a paying passenger, ABC News is reporting.
Just before dawn, “Fearless Felix” will don a custom-made spacesuit and ascend high over the New Mexico desert in a capsule suspended beneath an immense helium balloon, then fall to earth from 120,000 feet. The Austrian adventurer hopes to break an u
Because this is a new resupply ship for the space station, NASA set detailed safety rules in advance for Falcon, even though the engine failure was far from the station. And those rules prevent SpaceX from firing its second stage engines,
Aboard the ISS, we fly along over Earth's luminous nocturnal landscapes, with Dr. Justin Wilkinson as our guide. This intimate tour takes us over cities and coastlines in the Americas, the Middle East and Europe.
The first steps towards interstellar travel have been taken, but the stars are very far away.
The slow motion video of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket take off, which was carrying the Dragon cargo capsule, last night seems to show a possible explosion in the engines, and a fair amount of debris flowing out of it.
