A spacewalk by Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev outside the International Space Station (ISS) that was planned for May 19 has been postponed due to issues with the European Robotic Arm.
Mitsubishi Electric has developed a liquid resin that is formulated to remain stable in the vacuum of space and harden into a parabolic spacecraft antenna when exposed to ultraviolet light emitted from the Sun.
The uncrewed Starliner flight test is part of a joint NASA-Boeing program to develop crew transportation services to the ISS and future destinations in low Earth orbit.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has presented NASA with 15 recommendations for improving the long-term diversity among those who lead space science missions.
The U.S. Space Force is meeting with industry representatives in a different way, to see what will be possible for the migration of tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to orbit.
The Space Development Agency has issued a draft solicitation for its Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System, outlining plans to use an Other Transaction Authority acquisition strategy to buy 12 space vehicles.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft was rolled out to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on May 18 in preparation for a launch attempt at 6:54 p.m. EDT May 19.
Searching for an alternative to GPS-based timing, DARPA has launched its H6 program, an effort to develop ultra-small, low-power, fieldable clocks that can maintain their timing precision for one week.
Science operations aboard NASA’s Mars InSight lander are expected to stop by late summer rather than year-end due to an accumulation of dust on the lander’s two circular solar arrays.
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has granted contracts to two companies for development of two types of spacecraft nuclear propulsion: a compact fusion system and a next-generation radioisotope system.
The U.S. has entered a space race with China that rivals that of the Cold War era with the Soviet Union, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told House lawmakers May 17.
The Russian government has put a hold on its approval of a new agreement between its Roscosmos space agency and NASA that would send Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft in exchange for flying U.S. astronauts on Russian Soyuz vehicles.
An international team of astronomers has directly imaged for the first time the telltale ring of gas surrounding the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, some 27,000 light years from Earth.
Fresh off the success of the first U.S. private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Space has broken ground on a headquarters campus at Houston Spaceport to support work on the first U.S. commercially developed and operated space station.
