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The Dream Chaser space plane continues to take steps toward flight, even though NASA did not select the private vehicle to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
Reusable rockets will have to wait.
Nasa reveals huge 'coronal hole' on the solar surface where winds reach 500 miles per SECOND
A "tsunami wave" occurs when the sun emits a coronal mass ejection, throwing out a magnetic cloud of plasma from its surface. This generates a wave of pressure. When the wave runs into the interstellar plasma -- the charged particles found in the s
Why does the same side of the Moon always face the Earth? The Moon has synchronous rotation: it's rotation period is the same as its period of revolution.
When the first living visitor from Earth lands on Mars we might well expect it to be a man or a woman, but if students from the University of Southampton Spaceflight Society have their way, it could be one small step for a lettuce.
The first SpaceX launch of 2015 is scheduled for 6:20 am EST on Tuesday, Jan. 6 and could be a game-changing event for reusable rocket technology.
NEW YEAR, NEW REUSABLE SPACECRAFT.
Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has drawn some comparisons to Apple cofounder Steve Jobs and at least one SpaceX employee thinks those comparisons are warranted. An anonymous SpaceX engineer
The projected cost of constructing a first-stage lunar outpost, followed by a second-stage facility is about $9.3 billion.
The projected cost of constructing a first-stage lunar outpost, followed by a second-stage facility is about $9.3 billion.
A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered an invisible shield some 7,200 miles above Earth that blocks so-called "killer electrons,"...
A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered an invisible shield some 7,200 miles above Earth that blocks so-called "killer electrons,"...
The International Space Station (ISS) may get all the glory, but suborbital rocket flights still play a vital part in space research.
The 3D printer aboard the International Space Station has wrapped up the first phase of its orbital test run by cranking out a ratchet wrench whose design was beamed up from Earth.
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, successfully demonstrated the heavy-lift version of its long-awaited Angara series of rockets Dec. 23 from the Plesetsk Cosmosrome in northern Russia, the agency said.
In the film, Lipunov says it's difficult to calculate the orbit of big objects like 2014 UR116 because, as they hurtle through the solar system, their trajectories are constantly being altered by the gravitational pull of nearby planets. "We need t
A private suborbital space plane is really starting to come together.
Having teased the public by showing off the SuperDraco engine, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has taken the wraps off the Dragon V2 manned spacecraft that it's designed to propel.
At the moment, if you want to fly to the International Space Station, you're only option is to hitch a lift on one of Russia's 1970s-vintage Soyuz space capsules.
Is it possible there are other planets out there within our solar system? As Matt Sampson explains some scientists are very excited about this theory, and say they even have evidence to support it. The quest to find a Planet X in our solar system
Sometimes the cheapest distance between two points is not a straight line
Private spacecraft from Sierra Nevada, Virgin, SpaceX and others are pushing boundaries in spaceflight and edging into the domain once held exclusively by government-funded behemoths like Lockheed-Martin.
Mars is regarded as the most Earth-like of the planets in the Solar System, but its atmosphere is only 0.6 percent as dense as Earth's and is constantly leaking what little air it has into space.
SpaceX Is Going To Land A Rocket On A Platform In The Ocean -- A Feat That Could Forever Change Spaceflight.
A way to explore Venus.
If and when we finally encounter aliens, they probably won't look like little green men, or spiny insectoids. It's likely they won't be biological creatures at all, but rather, advanced robots that outstrip our intelligence in every conceivable
On Oct. 31, 2014, the space tourism company Virgin Galactic suffered a serious accident during a SpaceShipTwo test flight, resulting in the loss of the spacecraft. One pilot died in the crash, while another suffered injuries. Scroll Down for our full
Google Lunar XPrize deadline extended to 2016 – Milestone Prize winners to be announced in January.
Imagery from the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite show lighting patterns change on holidays around the world. Energy usage varies across across different cultural and socioeconomic areas.
