Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 ...

Last week, the first operational satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband network were minutes from launch at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. These spacecraft, buttoned up on ...

The Commercial Space Federation is at the forefront of dealing with the diverse nature and rapid growth of the commercial space industry. The organization's mission is to push for growth and ...

Technicians at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are nearing the finish line on the space agency’s newest flagship astrophysics mission. Called the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

Gayle King wishes everybody would adopt a more realistic perspective about Monday’s Blue Origin space outing. The “CBS Mornings” co-host has been telling anyone who will listen that what she ...

In recent years, defence companies have stepped up their involvement in space projects, prompting calls for more EU-level coordination and investment. Companies traditionally focused purely on ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report that more than 6,600 tons of space junk are currently floating about in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), between 100 - 1,200 ...

The fight over the location of the U.S. Space Command headquarters chugs on after a new report from the Pentagon’s watchdog revealed uncertainty behind the scenes in choosing the permanent spot ...

As part of the Space Force's review of its acquisition portfolio, the service is considering augmenting its Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability, depicted here, with commercially available systems.

The way to be certain is to observe the planet directly, but that would take a space telescope with a mirror 3–4 times that of Webb. Back in 2002, NASA proposed just such a mission. Called the ...

For all of the fretting about Elon Musk on the national political stage, perhaps no part of America operates in his shadow more directly than the space industry. Musk’s influence, even before he ...

That’s right, I’m referring to the “historic” all-female Blue Origin space flight, which took a crew of six women—including three very famous ladies—to suborbital space and back in ...