NASA

By Irene Klotz
NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos are working on a backup plan to deorbit the International Space Station at the end of its operational life.
Space Exploration

By Guy Norris
Boeing is pausing development of the X-66 transonic truss-braced wing aircraft with NASA and reallocating resources to get the 737-7, 737-10 and 777X certified.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
Texas lawmakers are urging President Trump to shift NASA’s Washington, D.C., headquarters to the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Irene Klotz, Mark Carreau
The U.S. plans to operate the International Space Station (ISS) for another five years, but risks to the orbital outpost are a growing concern.
Operations & Safety

By Steve Trimble
Boeing’s beleaguered Defense and Space business made progress on several fronts in the first quarter as part of a broader turnaround plan.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
DARPA is soliciting a lunar orbiter capable of flying in the Moon’s unstable low orbit.
Space Exploration

By Graham Warwick
Another Chinese eVTOL flies; artificial intelligence beats human in drone race; detonation-powered hypersonics.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
Lucy, NASA's mission to explore an asteroid family known as Trojans that accompany Jupiter, made its second close approach to a main-belt asteroid.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
Russia's Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft departed the ISS for a parachute-assisted landing and recovery in remote Kazakhstan to conclude the latest crew exchange.
Operations & Safety

By Guy Norris
Rotating detonation engines have huge potential for realizing efficient high-speed flight, but they are proving fiendishly difficult to get right.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
A NASA safety panel has raised concerns about the risks involved in the continuing operation of the International Space Station.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
With new evidence from the long-lived robotic scout Curiousity, early Mars is looking even more like early Earth.
Space Exploration

By Brian Everstine
The explosion that destroyed a Northrop Grumman solid rocket motor facility in Utah will not impact the company’s operations related to the Sentinel ICBM.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Curiosity rover has provided new evidence for the at least intermittent presence of large quantities of surface water on Mars about 4 billion years ago.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
The Trump administration’s draft budget plan for fiscal 2026 includes deep cuts to NASA’s science programs.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Mark Carreau
The Ad Astra Rocket Co. is continuing to advance a concept for NASA with the potential to reach Mars within an estimated 45 days using a nuclear power source.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
The Trump administration’s draft budget plan for fiscal 2026 includes deep cuts to NASA’s science programs.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
Senators question Jared Isaacman’s relationship with Elon Musk and his commitment to NASA plans and missions.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
Jeff Bezos' fiancee and five other women lifted off aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard launch system on April 14 for a 10-min. ride to and from suborbital space.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The Ascend Act seeks to codify NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program to permanently provide shared access to commercial small-satellite data.
Satellites

By Mark Carreau
Jared Isaacman, President Trump’s nominee to be NASA administrator, has stressed the importance of returning to the Moon with human explorers ahead of China.
Space Symposium

By Garrett Reim
Space robotics startup Gitai has established a defense subsidiary aimed at winning contracts as a prime contractor from the U.S. Defense Department and NASA.
Space

By Irene Klotz
With the lease for its Washington headquarters expiring and a Trump administration directive to become more efficient, NASA is considering options.
Space Symposium

By Mark Carreau
Russia’s Soyuz MS-27 launched to and docked with the International Space Station (ISS) early April 8.
Space Symposium

By Irene Klotz
Dual-use Earth science data could hold sway as NASA reportedly prepares for the possible termination of missions on the Trump administration’s chopping block.
Space Symposium