Space

Lockheed Martin is developing business plans and strategies to offer commercial flight services of the Orion deep-space capsule.

Lockheed Martin and Spark Capital-backed Inversion reaffirmed its plan for a first flight of its Arc space-based, on-demand cargo delivery vehicle next year.

Tokyo leans on the automobile sector for an off-world ride.

The U.S. Space Force’s next neighborhood watchdog spacecraft could be the first operational system capable of on-orbit refueling.

In 1970 we reported how Apollo 14 astronauts Alan B. Shaephard and Edgar D. Mitchell would have made it to the top of Cone Crater during their second exploration of the Moon if they had not been misled by a high ridge they mistook for the crater's rim.

U.S. Space Force Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy made waves when he disclosed that he wants refuelable space situational awareness satellites.

T-Mobile’s satellite-based cellular service, provided by SpaceX’s Starlink, now supports data for a variety of smartphone apps, including video chat software.

Intuitive Machines (IM), Inc., a space technology and services company, has announced the completion of its acquisition of KinetX Inc.

The European Space Agency has signed an accord with Thales Alenia Space to advances its effort to deploy a European quantum key distribution government service.

Blue Origin plans to launch a lunar resource mapping spacecraft to help identify opportunities to exploit materials available on the Moon.

The U.S. Space Force has accepted the Advanced Tracking and Launch Analysis System (ATLAS) for operational use.

A NASA inspector general's audit raises safety and performance concerns about the agency's more than five-decade-old spacesuits.

There are two leading approaches to staying on the Moon and powering through the frigid lunar night: nuclear fission reactors and regenerative fuel cells.

As the clock ticks toward a U.S. government shutdown, opponents claim the Trump administration will undermine NASA's missions, safety protocols and workforce.

“We can’t waste a day,” Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said Sept. 30 during an interview with Aviation Week on the sidelines of the International Astronautical Congress.

SpaceX is targeting Oct. 13 for the next Starship-Super Heavy flight test.

A UAE-led medical study recently headed into space aboard Axiom Mission 4. The private mission, which launched on June 25, was led by veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson, adding to her standing record for the longest cumulative time in space by an American astronaut.

Axiom Space unveiled a pilot program to provide personalized training for prospective human spaceflight participants interested in doing microgravity research.

The Exploration Co., a European startup developing cargo, and eventually crewed, spacecraft for LEO, plans a 2028 flight test to the ISS.

Famous automotive manufacturers bet on space, electric air taxis and hydrogen power.

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health selected HarmonEyes for assessment of an artificial intelligence-powered eye tracking platform.

The first stage of an Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket being prepared for launch on a commercial mission for Lockheed Martin was destroyed Sept. 29.

American Honda Motor Co. plans to study integrating its regenerative fuel cell system with Astrobotic’s Vertical Solar Array Technology for long-term operations on the Moon.

The launch startup Beijing Galactic Energy Aerospace Technology Co. (Galactic Energy) has raised RMB 2.4 billion ($336 million) in a Series D funding round.

NASA is opting for a new flight trajectory for the next Artemis mission to reduce risks to astronauts as the agency gears up to return to the lunar surface in 2027.