Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Hypersonic flight is entering a new era as Varda Space Industries, in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force, prepares to test ...

Rosetta would later become the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. It was also the only mission to attempt a soft landing on a comet. Rosetta launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana and ...

Moreover: More than 40 spacecraft in its satellite manufacturing ... with significant upside potential as it continues to lead the modern space race. Rocket Lab faces risks like reliance on ...

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...

Rocket Lab designed and built the Pioneer spacecraft that hosted Varda’s capsule on orbit for six weeks carrying payloads for the U.S. Air Force Research Lab and NASA. The companies have ...

a former NASA rocket scientist; Amanda Nguyen, a civil rights activist; and Kerianne Flynn, a movie producer. The group will take off in the New Shepard spacecraft from the company’s West Texas ...

Lunar Trailblazer’s Deployment and Initial Contact NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February 26 ... established communication with the spacecraft at ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Intuitive Machines’ second lunar lander lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/John Raoux) A ...

Never before have so many spacecraft angled for the moon’s surface all at once. Last month, U.S. and Japanese companies shared a rocket and separately launched landers toward Earth's sidekick.

The American company achieved the first successful moon landing by a private spacecraft last year ... Athena launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday.