Two days after laying off about 100 employees who had been working on its Dream Chaser vehicle, Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) on Sept. 26 filed a protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office of a commercial crew contract it lost earlier in Sept
A concept mission that would fire scientific missiles at Mars to search for signs of subsurface life is making technical strides, team members say, but it still needs quite a bit of financial help to get off the ground.
India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) was achieved on a budget of 75 million. NASA's MAVEN Mission cost nearly 10 times more. Newsy explains why there is such a big difference.
Attention Apollo 11 conspiracy theorists: Chipmaker Nvidia has used the latest in computer graphics technology to recreate Neil Armstrong's famous photograph of Buzz Aldrin hopping off the lunar lander, and it provides a pretty good indication that
After a journey of almost a year, India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has arrived at the Red Planet. On Wednesday at 7.29 am IST (02.29 GMT), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirmed that the unmanned probe had successfully executed i
(Editor's Note: European Space Agency mission controllers picked a landing site for Rosetta's Philae lander, set to make the first soft-landing on a comet's surface on Nov. 11: Europe Unveils Comet Landing Site for Historic Rosetta Mission)
Our stereotype of a spacesuit involves an astronaut clad in a bulky white outfit like some outer space Michelin Man wearing a rucksack – and about as graceful.
It has been reported that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in collaboration with NASA has designed a next-generation space suit for improved planetary travel.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket transporting Dragon spacecraft failed to launch on Saturday, Sept. 20, because of bad weather conditions, the space agency said in a statement.
In the latest step toward commercial human space flight, Boeing and SpaceX have been chosen to carry the next NASA astronauts into space, the agency announced today.
Last week, two more of Planet Lab's shoebox-sized Earth imaging satellites launched themselves from aboard the International Space Station, the latest in a series of technical mysteries ....
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered construction sped up on a multi-billion-dollar spaceport in Russia's Far East that he said would break reliance on the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and launch future missions to the Moon and Mars.
Tel Aviv-based start up Effective Space Solutions claims that its DeOrbiter microsatellites could not only be used to dispose of defunct geosynchronous satellites, but could also rescue a pair of errant Galileo satellites currently trapped in the wro
A reusable rocket prototype built by the private spaceflight company SpaceX exploded over the firm's Texas proving grounds Friday (Aug. 22) after an anomaly forced the destruction of the craft.
The private spaceflight company SpaceX wants to launch astronauts into space in the coming years, and it will enter the final frontier with an innovative technology: 3D printing.