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When and if colonists ever arrive on Mars, they're going to need something to eat … on a long-term, ongoing basis. That's why several research groups are looking into the feasibility of growing crops on the Red Planet.
A new virtual reality app lets users explore the solar system up close, from scorching-hot Mercury to faraway Pluto and beyond.
Where can we sign up?
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was almost certain the rocket his company launched yesterday would crash after its successful deployment of a new communications satellite, but it's hard not to admire the man for trying anyway.
SpaceX is hoping the fourth time's the charm with its bid today (March 4) to launch a commercial satellite into space and then return its rocket booster to Earth to land on a barge.
SpaceX successfully launched a communications satellite to a distant orbit but failed, as expected, to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on an ocean platform.
Well, that didn't last long.
The 9-part series premieres on YouTube and Google Play this month
Divest from Russia, with love
Fifth time's a charm?
Gerald Jackson and his partner are starting a Kickstarter to raise funds
Within five years, companies could begin in-orbit manufacturing and assembly of communications satellite reflectors or other large structures, according to Made in Space, the Silicon Valley startup that sent the first 3D printer to the International
Astronaut Scott Kelly, of NASA, and cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos landed safely in Kazakhstan on March 2, 2016.
Built with re-usable engines that leverage the long history of automotive tech, the Lynx should give XCOR a competitive edge in suborbital space travel.
After scrubbing three times last week, SpaceX once again called off their Falcon 9 launch attempt on March 1 due to extremely high upper-level winds. The company's founder, Elon Musk, tweeted over two and a half hours before the planned liftoff tim
A miniature research spacecraft called the CubeSat to study Solar Particles (CuSP) is one of the projects that will have the opportunity to hitch a ride on the historic first flight of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) in 2018.
'Artificial star' would reflect sunlight to illuminate parts of Earth
Its astronauts already travel fast enough, so now NASA wants to bring the ultimate in speedy flight to the masses.
Sunday evening was scheduled to be SpaceX's third attempt at its second rocket launch of the year.
SpaceX dramatically aborted its third attempt to launch the SES 9 mission today at literally the last second.
The number 2016 divided by 4 equals 504, exactly--with no remainder, which makes the year 2016, like the upcoming years 2020, 2024 and 2028 (and beyond), a leap year.
On July 9, 1962 -- 50 years ago today -- the United States detonated a nuclear weapon high above the Pacific Ocean. Designated Starfish Prime, it was part of a dangerous series of high-altitude nuclear bomb tests at the height of the Cold War.
After postponing its second launch of the year twice in the last week, SpaceX announced that it is ready to try again on Sunday, Feb. 28 at 6:46 p.m. ET.
Solar electric propulsion uses electricity generated from solar arrays to ionize atoms of the propellant xenon. These ions are then expelled by a strong electric field out the back of the spacecraft, producing thrust. So, in short, SEP is a propulsio
Pole sitting was a fad in the United States in the 1920s, but ESA is putting a modern orbital spin on the practice.
The quest to find small, Earth-like exoplanets isn't just a matter of pointing an exceptionally powerful telescope towards a star, as one may do to observe moons orbiting a planet.
Third time's the charm?
SpaceX has called off its second attempt in as many days to launch the SES-9 satellite into orbit, citing "technical difficulties".
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the SES 9 communications satellite. Tonight's Falcon 9 launch Thursday night at 6:46 p.m. EST (2346 GMT). The weather calls for an 80 percent chance of fav
SpaceX called off the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday to make sure the booster's supply of super-chilled cryogenic liquid oxygen is cold enough to support the delivery of the 5.8-ton SES 9 commercial communications sate
