NASA has chosen 41 commercial technology projects that could solve critical challenges for future missions to the Moon and ...

SpaceX's recent IPO highlights the evolving space economy, with its valuation fluctuating between $1.9 and $2.3 trillion. The ...

Future spacecraft may travel farther by drawing momentum from planets, sunlight, and the solar wind instead of onboard fuel.

Spacecraft of the future may be able to detect and repair their own structural damage in orbit, a capability that could make long-duration missions and reusable launch vehicles more resilient.

Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make it a reality. The Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission is scheduled for launch ...

Imagine a future where thousands of people travel to space every year. Some stay a week. Some a month. Some never come back — they stay, build and live. Space is no longer the exclusive domain of ...

When rockets fire into space, the insides of their engines become an extreme environment where temperatures soar and tiny particles are thrown around at hypersonic speeds. These particles behave in ...

A new study suggests spacecraft exhaust could quickly contaminate the moon's most scientifically valuable regions, ...

The space race is filled with glamorous rockets, astronauts and sparkling new space stations, but people rarely think about ...

At a press conference on June 9, NASA announced the crew of its upcoming Artemis 3 mission to low-Earth orbit. Commander Randy Bresnik, pilot Luca Parmitano and mission specialists Frank Rubio and ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...