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While 2025 saw a record number of launches —including crewed exploration, science missions, and even an historic first ...

SpaceX, a private American aerospace transport and manufacturing company, conducted a Falcon 9 launch at Vandenberg Space ...

As humans prepare for longer missions to the moon and Mars, scientists are trying to understand how space affects the human body. One of the biggest concerns is space radiation — high-energy particles ...

Today, guardians go to space only in popular misconception, but tomorrow? There might be solid tactical reasons to put Space Force personnel in orbit, argues a new report from the Mitchell Institute ...

Three Chinese astronauts are stuck in space after their shuttle was used to cart another group back to Earth, leaving them in the dust. Astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang, all with the ...

In this episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Doug Hendrix, co-founder and CEO of ExoAnalytic Solutions — a company born from three physicists’ passion for solving hard problems in ...

Germany’s new military space strategy endorses long-term development of reusable spaceplanes, including this concept included in the report, among other technologies. Credit: German Ministry of ...

The astronauts are not furloughed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Although the U.S. government is shut down, NASA's astronauts ...

A little more than a century ago, the US Army Air Service came up with a scheme for naming the military’s multiplying fleet of airplanes. The 1924 aircraft designation code produced memorable names ...

The roots of material science in space began in the mid-20th century during the dawn of the space race. Image Credit: Indometeus/Wikimedia Commons To begin with, rockets, space shuttles, and ...