While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

Engaging articles, breathtaking images and expert knowledge Issues delivered straight to your door What would happen if Earth ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test ... 2022 OB5 is a near-Earth asteroid that is up to 328 feet (100 meters) in diameter and could be metallic.

Space agencies are keeping a close ... Neither Dimorphos nor Didymos poses a danger to Earth. Still, the double-asteroid system was a perfect target on which to test deflection technology because ...

One of NASA's stranded astronauts has revealed she has lost ... on Earth also weaken because they no longer need to work as hard, the agency says. When astronauts return from long-term space ...

DeepSeek rocketed to the No. 1 spot in app stores the world over, topping U.S.-based AI chatbot ChatGPT. And investors just ...

He co-directs the Outer Space Institute. The consequences for Canada ... The astronauts will be carried by SLS from Earth’s surface to lunar orbit, where they will transfer to Starship for ...

then redirecting them to beam down on a target on Earth. Yet this was exactly what the Russian space agency Roscosmos attempted to do on 4 February 1993. But the aim of the Znamya (meaning banner ...

Scientists long thought Iceland was created by a hot mantle plume rising from deep inside the Earth. But emerging new data paints ... seismic data and gravity measurements from satellites in space and ...