When NASA’s free-flying helpers on the International Space Station drifted into trouble, the solution did not come from a new thruster or a last-minute software patch. It came from a virtual copy of ...
Just like your cellphone stays connected by roaming between networks, NASA's Polylingual Experimental Terminal, or PExT, ...
"We are faced with another space race," Jared Isaacman, NASA's new administrator, told NBC News after he was sworn in on ...
Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...
A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers Saturday, leaving ...
Trump withdrew Isaacman's nomination in May, citing the billionaire's donations to Democrats and ties to Elon Musk. He was ...
Blue Origin is preparing another tourist flight beyond Earth’s atmosphere, but this one carries a first that could reshape ...
This week, China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft sent back its first image from space. It’s headed to a rendezvous with the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, one of Earth’s “quasi-moons,” where it will collect samples in ...
For the first time in its 25-year history, all eight docking ports on the International Space Station are occupied, according to NASA. The rare "orbital traffic jam" occurred after Northrop Grumman's ...
The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan. By Kenneth Chang The launchpad Russia ...
Earlier this month, the China Manned Space Agency was forced to delay the return of three astronauts from its Tiangong space station after they discovered “tiny cracks” in their return capsule’s ...
The three-person crew will spend about eight months aboard the orbital laboratory conducting scientific research. This mission comes as the ISS marks 25 years of continuous human presence in orbit.