Engineers have developed a class of origami structures that unfold in one smooth motion to create flower-like shapes, which ...

Watch how Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) met its demise after traveling close to the sun. Imagers aboard the Solar and Heliospheric ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed and tested a micrometeoroid and orbital debris (MMOD) detection and ...

On this day in 1977, NASA launched Voyager 2, a spacecraft that would go on to make history as one of humanity’s greatest achievements in space exploration. Today, the probe celebrates 48 years in ...

Starbase, which Texas voters in Cameron County approved in May to become its own town, attracted some controversy in June when commissioners with the city of Starbase voted unanimously to close ...

A new study from the University of Nottingham has explored the use of fuel-free spacecraft propulsion systems and how they ...

In April 1970, Apollo 13 was headed to the moon when disaster struck. A critical failure crippled the spacecraft’s systems.

Orbital transfer vehicles launch atop rockets, carrying other spacecraft that they deliver to specific, often hard-to-reach, ...

Both science fiction and real life have provided some interesting spacecraft names, sometimes borrowing from each other. This ...

Scientists are exploring various proposals to repurpose existing spacecraft in order to chase after the interstellar object ...

Prior to flybys, scientists used mathematical laws and observation to determine the characteristics of the planets.

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...