A number of nations are heading for the Moon — first with robotic craft, but then to establish permanent facilities. Count in China, Russia, as well as the US among those countries hungry to not ...

the black dot on the horizontal axis is the current position of New Horizons – between the two belts. The orbits of objects to the right of New Horizons are the KBOs in the suspected second belt.

NASA illustration of a future lunar outpost. Image credit: NASA. The concept of lunar habitation holds profound implications for scientific exploration, resource utilization, and the expansion of ...

Emposat’s Global TT&C Network. Image credit: Emposat. Oftentimes when people think of the emerging commercial space sector, two things come to mind: rockets and satellites. This is not ...

Georgia State’s CHARA array is an optical interferometer located on Mount Wilson, California CREDIT Georgia State University Plans are underway to add a seventh movable telescope to Georgia ...

Seen here with its solar arrays deployed, the Low-Latitude Ionosphere/Thermosphere Enhancements in Density (LLITED) mission will measure and study two features of the upper atmosphere: the ...

A $1.86 million NASA contract has been awarded to a UConn Biomedical Engineering professor working with Eascra Biotech, and private Texas-based aerospace company, Axiom Space, to fabricate ...

An image of the Martian landscape captured by Perseverance stitched together with the night sky as seen from Earth. Image credit: NASA and Hugh Hou. The image is gorgeous. A 360-degree view ...

Image credit: Xinhua news agency. With all four of China’s launch sites all controlled by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and with very strict limits on access to foreigners or even ...

A new set of four crew members are preparing to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission. NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg, as ...

A billowing pair of nearly symmetrical loops of dust and gas mark the death throes of an ancient red-giant star, as captured by Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory ...

Image credit: Ball Aerospace & Technologies. BAE Systems has reached an agreement to acquire Ball Corporation’s aerospace subsidiary for $5.55 billion in cash, the two companies announced on ...