Maintaining a space station around a planetary body other than Earth won't be an easy feat. While the ISS orbits just 250 ...

helping to inspire the next generation of space engineers. The idea seems simple. Rather than take building materials all the way to the moon, we could use what is already there to construct a ...

ESA's Gaia spacecraft is on a mission to map the locations and motions of more than a billion stars in the Milky Way with ...

A Saskatchewan farmer’s near miss with potentially lethal debris falling from orbit highlights the skyrocketing risks and ...

Developed by a team of young Emirati engineers from the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), the satellite is a source of inspiration for young Emiratis. KhalifaSat was developed by young ...

The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers is an Emmy-nominated web series and site from PBS’s NOVA. This is where you can learn about cutting-edge science and engineering, the amazing people ...

June 30 marks Asteroid Day, a holiday observed annually to reflect on the prospect of a planet-destroying ... scientists and ...

Boeing’s Starliner capsule finally blasted off its first manned flight from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June 5. During the 25-hour flight, however, engineers found hardware ...

Two NASA astronauts will take part in a media call on Wednesday, the first since their malfunctioning Boeing Starliner left ...

US astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams on Wednesday expressed confidence in returning home on the Boeing Starliner ...

The Gaia Telescope observing the Milky Way in outer space recently took a hit by a micrometeoroid. The tiny particle, the ...

The firings will reproduce the ones that Starliner performed in space. That will probably take a couple of weeks, Mr. Stich said. “Then we’ll give engineers a chance to go look at that thruste ...