If you thought 2025 was an exciting year for spaceflight, just wait until 2026. Here's a look at six missions that could define the year.

Such "countdown demonstration tests" have traditionally taken place shortly before launch with the rocket and crew ship ...

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 ...

Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti receives funding from NASA and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). He teaches space systems engineering and mission design and management at the University ...

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On a recent Saturday night at Carriage House on the Lower East Side, a handpicked crowd of Gen Z creatives and entrepreneurs sipped absinthe, watched a magician work miracles with “A Wrinkle in Time,” ...

Dec. 1 (UPI) --Arianespace on Monday launched a Vega C, sending South Korea's KOMPSAT-7 satellite into Earth orbit, the sixth flight by the French-based company this year. The rocket lifted off at ...

WASHINGTON — Spire Global has secured a contract from Deloitte to design, build and operate eight satellites that will support the consulting firm’s push into on-orbit cybersecurity, the companies ...

Space is getting busier as national space agencies and private companies increase the tempo of launches. But today’s approach to space exploration is unsustainable, say researchers, and we need to do ...

This housemate is utterly unbearable. A California homeowner has been desperately trying to evict an unwanted guest from his property — a 500-pound black bear that’s moved into the crawl space beneath ...

Each rocket launch consumes large amounts of valuable materials and releases significant quantities of greenhouse gases and ozone-depleting chemicals into the atmosphere. In a paper published today ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, 2026, Illinois will usher in a slate of new laws, signed by Gov. JB Pritzker, that promise to reshape workplaces, redefine ...