NASA’s mega-project of scooping up and transferring specimens of Mars to our planet is under intense scrutiny and has been put on pause. The plan, which never looked easy, called for a NASA ...

Blaine Curcio is the leading Chinese space industry analyst, having been based in Greater China since 2011, and having been working in the space and satcom sector since 2010. He is founder of Hong ...

NASA recently announced its latest challenge with Freelancer.com: The space agency has asked researchers and engineers on the platform to create new methods of refilling propellant in space.

On Wednesday, Space industry figures from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic reiterated calls for an extension to the “ learning period ” regarding the development of safety regulations ...

Space news and reference site.It’s no secret that China has been launching satellites at a dramatically increasing rate over the past several years. According to data from Orbital Gateway ...

John is a Colorado-based science writer, astrophotographer, science outreach enthusiast, and creative technologist. He is the author of award-winning Hubble Star Cards and a few children's books.

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern posits that the large, approximately 5-kilometer-long mounds that dominate ...

The SpaceX Starship sits on the Starbase launch pad in Boca Chica, Texas prior to its first test flight. Image credit: SpaceX. The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) acting administrator ...

Firefly Aerospace, Inc., an end-to-end space transportation company, was awarded an $18 million NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract ...

In less than a month, NASA is scheduled to embark upon a series of firsts: The first journey to an unknown metallic asteroid, Psyche. The first deep space use of Hall effect thrusters, a hyper ...

SpeQtral, a leading quantum communication technology company, has chosen Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) as the satellite bus provider for its upcoming SpeQtral-1 mission. The second partner ...

The image is gorgeous. A 360-degree view panorama showing the Perseverance Rover on a dry Martian plain full of rocks and dust with mountains in the distance. Overhead, a dramatic, oversaturated ...