Space

This year’s winners will be recognized March 14 at a black-tie gala in Washington, when the Grand Laureates and Lifetime Achievement awards also will be presented.

Methane and liquid oxygen engine hits 60% of maximum thrust during 2-sec. debut.

The Global Space Congress, the largest gathering of space industry leaders hosted by the Middle East and North Africa region, was held at the St Regis Saadiyat Island Resort in Abu Dhabi from March 18-21. Steve Nichols reports.

New Horizons surveys Ultima Thule, a twin-lobed body that formed in situ in the Kuiper Belt.

The UAE Space Agency (UAESA) has revealed the winners of the student experiment competition ‘Tests in Orbit’, sponsored by the UAE Space Agency and organised by The Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT).

The first test of the methane-burning Raptor rocket engine marks a key step toward the start of flight tests of SpaceX's multipurpose, interplanetary-class space transportation system.

Hoping for a massive increase in its space safety budget, ESA presses on with a joint asteroid deflection mission with NASA.

Allowing corporations to buy naming rights to NASA property and to use astronauts for commercials would cause more harm than good for the American public and for NASA as a public entity.

Commercial funding not only enhances great American research organizations, but it also creates them—just look at the Smithsonian Institution.

Listen in as our editors discuss the shocking turnabout for the late Paul Allen’s air-launch space company and other recent churn in the space launch market.

The first rocket officially named Soyuz was launched in 1966 and has since flown 1,050 times, of which 1,023 were successful.

January was not kind for space businesses. If it is a bellwether for the rest of the year, 2019 might be a year of de-orbiting some expectations.

Earth’s life-essential elements may have been delivered through the same impact with a Mars-sized planetary body that produced the Moon more than 4.4 billion years ago, a research effort says.

Once disguised as a coal-mining town, this Russian spaceport is looking for a piece of commercial launch action.

A government-backed company is selling Soyuz launch services from Russian spaceports.

In a shocking move just three months after founder Paul Allen's death, Stratolaunch has abandoned development of a family of dedicated launchers and PGA rocket engines.

With Falcon 9 finished, SpaceX looks to broadband satellite and Mars ship development with a leaner workforce.

The first U.S. missile defense review in nine years will present the Space Sensor Layer as a necessary upgrade for U.S. forces to confront a growing array of hypersonic boost-glide and cruise missiles.

2019 to be moment of truth for Arianespace as demand evolves and European institutions are hoped to sign contracts.

The Iridium constellation will provide global tracking and communications capabilities not previously available to commercial aviation.

“To continue delivering for our customers and to succeed in developing interplanetary spacecraft and a global space-based internet, SpaceX must become a leaner company," the company says.

From transonic truss-braced wing designs to learning lessons from Apollo, Graham Warwick and Guy Norris report from this year’s AIAA SciTech conference in San Diego, California.

Thirty-four new pieces of debris were recently added to the growing junk heap in Earth orbit.

After closing out 2018 with a company record 21 launches, SpaceX aims to keep the pace, begin flying astronauts and test a prototype Mars spaceship

Greater demands on engine performance have ranked high among the challenges for China’s Chang’e 4 lunar mission.