Frozen fuel from the Falcon 9 rocket launched Monday created a luminous display for several minutes, and was seen by people from England to Eastern Europe.

Researchers have developed scalable lightsails, ultra-thin, reflective structures that use laser-driven radiation pressure to ...

Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support ...

The continent’s imminent attempt at a commercial orbital launch could be the start of a bold new era that ends Europe’s ...

Credit: Firefly Aerospace But it is in between that we might have a business case in the making: Greater Earth, comprising of Earth orbits, cislunar space, the moon, and near-Earth asteroids (NEAs ...

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Outside of a spacesuit, the human body is exposed to extreme temperatures, zero pressure and a vacuum that sucks the air out of your lungs.

These milestones suggest that spacecraft operating in cislunar space could utilize GNSS signals for navigation, providing increased autonomy and reliability for future space missions. Developed in ...

The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time to ... for the fusion-powered 'tugs' to be permanently based in space, ...

For instance, the European Space Agency is currently working to make space travel more accessible for people of a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. In this new era, the first footprint on ...

NASA's LuGRE tracked GNSS signals on the Moon for the first time The technology could aid future lunar and deep-space missions The experiment supports NASA’s Artemis programme goals ...

Japan launched the Michibiki 6 satellite aboard an H3 rocket from Tanegashima Space Center ... mission signifies a major stride in India’s cislunar exploration ...