Ask someone where outer space is, and they’ll probably point at the sky. It’s up, right? Simple. Except, no one really knows where “air space” ends and “outer space” begins. That might sound trivial, ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

Goods are shipped around the world via roads, rail, and air. Why not space, too? That’s the question posed by Inversion Space, a Los Angeles-based startup that’s developing a reentry capsule that it ...

A splashy California-based launch company named Relativity Space shared a photo of sleek-looking rocket hardware on its social media channels last week. The image featured an impressively large ...

Nothing in our universe stands still: Earth orbits the sun, the sun circles the galaxy, and even galaxies are constantly on the move. So why is everything in space in motion? It all comes down to how ...

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Space tourism has its fans — and its critics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Private companies are offering many opportunities ...

President Donald J. Trump transformed American space policy during his first term. He reestablished the National Space Council to coordinate national space strategy. He issued a series of important ...

This is the first crewed flight of the company's Starliner capsule, which was developed in partnership with NASA to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The third time was a ...

K2 Space is developing the Mega Class satellite bus that can accommodate 1,000 kilograms of payload and offer 20 kilowatts of power. Credit: K2 Space WASHINGTON — K2 Space, a two-year-old startup ...

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Humanity's quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it. While conventional wisdom suggests that space launch via ...