An annual safety report to NASA has both praise and also underscores a number of cautionary woes, including the space ...

Boeing is preparing for the cancellation of the Space Launch System rocket.

The most recent addition is the sixth of the 10 motor segments in the Artemis II Space Launch System rocket to be integrated onto mobile launcher 1 inside ... to modify the heat shield on the ...

NASA has released a detailed animation (above) showing how the Artemis II mission will look from launch to splashdown.The ...

Starship's heatshield tiles are hexagonal ceramic tiles designed to protect SpaceX's Starship during atmospheric re-entry, when the spacecraft faces extreme temperatures as it returns to Earth.

The third Starship test flight last March saw the spacecraft reach its planned trajectory and fly halfway around the world ...

Experts told Newsweek about the difficulties of reaching Mars as the United States faces complex challenges in space policy.

Meanwhile, a bit farther from home (some 15.5 billion miles/24.9 billion km), NASA spent 2024 coaxing its Voyager 1 deep space probe to keep working for as long as its nuclear power supply lasts ...

Changes in design continued to experiment with its shape, such as moving the location and size of its forward flaps, while also trying out various heat shield ... for NASA’s Artemis moon missions.

That includes a new dust shield system to demonstrate ... inform plans for the first crewed Artemis moon landing. SCALPSS ...

Orbital manufacturing. Private space stations. Moon buggies. Exploring Mars. All are there, alongside the more humdrum (if ...

As NASA plans to establish a permanent Moon base via its Artemis program, it is looking to avoid the dangers of lunar ...