Russia plans to send probes to Jupiter and Venus, land a network of unmanned stations on Mars and ferry Russian cosmonauts to the surface of the Moon — all by 2030. That’s according to a lea... Read more
NASA said hackers stole employee credentials and gained access to mission-critical projects last year in 13 major network breaches that could compromise U.S. national security. National Aero... Read more
Fifty years after John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, NASA no longer has the ability to fly astronauts in space, a decision Glenn lays squarely on the shoulders of the Bush... Read more
Despite a spate of Russian space accidents last year, NASA remains confident in its partner’s ability to fly crew and cargo to the International Space Station, the program manager said... Read more
The expression goes, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” And right now there is a need for NASA and the United States to have reliable access to low Earth orbit from homegrow... Read more
British scientists believe microscopic worms which are biologically very similar to humans may be the key to helping humans colonize other planets like Mars by giving clues on coping with lo... Read more
An unmanned Chinese spacecraft returned to Earth successfully on Thursday after more than two weeks in orbit, marking a pivotal moment for the rising power’s plans to secure a long-ter... Read more
California space-launch entrepreneur Elon Musk said his company will try to develop an orbital booster system with components capable of flying back to Earth for reuse. Musk, founder of Spac... Read more
NASA plans to spend $1.6 billion over the next two years bolstering industry efforts to develop space taxis, officials said on Monday. The U.S. space agency will be looking for complete syst... Read more
After getting a little free time, the last space shuttle crew was woken up to deal with a second computer failure on Atlantis. The astronauts switched to another of the shuttle’s five... Read more
