Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

One prominent example is SpaceShipOne ... from small payload deliveries to more complex suborbital tasks. As technology advances and more spacecraft adopt hybrid propulsion, this trend is expected ...

These benefits have led to increased adoption in various applications, from small spacecraft propulsion to suborbital space tourism. NASA's documentation on in-space propulsion technologies ...

While not an alien spacecraft, 'Oumuamua was an interstellar object (ISO), which came from another planetary system far, far away — and traveled at the blazingly fast speed of 196,000 miles per ...

This is Rocket Lab's fifth launch of 2025, with another expected within the next few weeks. That mission, DART AE, will liftoff using the company's HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test ...

Named after astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble, the telescope was the most advanced optical observatory ever placed in space. On June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne became the first privately built manned ...

Credit: CASC HELSINKI — A Chinese space company is setting its sights on crewed orbital spaceflight, marking a new step in the expansion of China’s commercial space sector. Zhang Xiaomin ...

March 27 (UPI) --The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering. A control team at the ESA's European Space Operations Center ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its second science-gathering flyby of the sun, the space agency announced on Tuesday (March 25). | Credit: Steve Gribben/NASA/Johns Hopkins APL ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through the sizzling solar atmosphere. Webb Space Telescope captures a star ...