Maj. Gen. Kimberly Crider, the acting chief technology and innovation officer for the Space Force. Credit: U.S. Air Force Space Force leaders frequently remind audiences that the newest branch of the ...

Reuters reports that NASA is urging Boeing and Northrop to commercialize the Space Launch System (SLS). On the surface, it’s a good strategy. The SLS is horrendously expensive to process and launch.

Like most historic achievements, this one will be hard-won. SpaceX is scheduled to launch its first crewed flight on May 27, sending NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A military agency dedicated to space defense has some budget as well as organizational hurdles to clear before it can become a reality, speakers warned this week at the 2001 ...

Retired astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent 340 days in space during an extended stay aboard the International Space Station in 2015-16, did not suffer any major long-term health effects that might raise ...

The moon is no easy place for a little rover to explore — from its sharp, glass-like dust which rips up components to the pockmarks and craters which cover its surface and which a rover has to ...

A roundtrip from Earth to Mars, plus time on the Red Planet, would mean a human crew could spend months or years in deep space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

(A) Coil system. (B) Tank and helical microswimmer. (C) Real experimental image. (D) Helical microswimmer with detailed shape parameters. The red dashed line indicates the body axis of the helical ...

Beaming data from point to point in free space using lasers is no longer the show-stopping trick it used to be, now that metropolitan service-provider networks based on this technology are becoming ...