SpaceX's recent IPO highlights the evolving space economy, with its valuation fluctuating between $1.9 and $2.3 trillion. The ...

The Second Space Race will be won by building space infrastructure—not just launching satellites. Private innovation and ...

Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make it a reality. The Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission is scheduled for launch ...

The future of sustained space habitation depends on our ability to grow fresh food away from Earth. The revolutionary new collaborative Moon-Rice project is using cutting-edge experimental biology to ...

Artist rendering of the X-37B conducting an aerobraking maneuver using the drag of Earth’s atmosphere. (Boeing Space) Ten months into its latest and largely classified mission, the Space Force’s X-37B ...

Space is harsh — radiation and temperature swings can destroy a spacecraft. Engineers at FIU’s Cold Spray and Rapid Deposition Laboratory develop coatings and materials that shield spacecraft from ...

Without a steady pipeline of space workforce professionals, our ability to innovate and compete globally is threatened. This shortage is not just a space workforce issue — it is a significant national ...

Mold can survive the harshest of environments, so to stop harmful spores from growing on future space stations, a new study suggests a novel way to prevent its spread. Researchers created a predictive ...

As NASA moves closer to establishing a permanent human presence on the Moon through the Artemis program, the agency is ...

health. Future advances could help grow food in space, manufacture materials from lunar and martian resources, and reduce the health risks of extended space exploration. The United States has an ...

Since 1989, SpaceNews has been committed to delivering trusted, independent journalism that keeps the global space industry informed, connected and ahead of the curve. And just as the space business ...

How will the United States direct finite resources to make the most impactful advances of knowledge in the complex laboratory of the space among Earth, the Moon, and Mars? The next decade will provide ...