NASA is working with university teams to develop tiny tech for space trips By Elizabeth Howell While NASA has big plans to return humans to the moon in 2024, the agency is also thinking small by working to support the development of tiny robots and satellites.
Watch Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket come together with these behind-the-scenes videos By Elizabeth Howell Several videos from Blue Origin show progress in the design of its latest rocket, New Glenn, as the company ramps up for the first launch next year.
These two tiny spacecraft will help pave the way for astronauts to return to the moon By Elizabeth Howell If NASA astronauts land on the moon as planned in 2024, they'll have an advantage their Apollo predecessors lacked: insights gathered by tiny robotic spacecraft that visit the moon before them.
Chinese smartphone camera photographs Earth from space By Andrew Jones Chinese electronics firm Xiaomi went above and beyond to advertise its latest smartphone, sending the device's 100-megapixel camera into space.
Sex in space: could technology meet astronauts' intimate needs? By Simon Dubé, Dave Anctil Machines could fulfill desires and support humans during space travel.
US Space Force's activities still mysterious despite House hearing By Elizabeth Howell Congress gave the lone employee of the United States Space Force quite a grilling this week, but the public still doesn't know much about the new military branch's activities.
NASA still aiming for 2024 moon landing despite SLS megarocket delays By Doris Elin Urrutia The first launch of NASA's back-to-the moon program has slipped into the second half of next year, but 2024 remains the target for the first crewed lunar landing since the Apollo days.
Elon Musk approves of the US Space Force, eyes 'Star Trek' potential By Mike Wall SpaceX's billionaire founder and CEO said he's onboard with the sixth branch of the U.S. military, which President Donald Trump officially established in December 2019.
RIP, MarCO! The world's first cubesats to Mars are gone for good By Meghan Bartels In September 2019, NASA started the second half of an epic game of Marco Polo; early this month the agency declared it over for good.
Relativity Space will 3D-print rockets at new autonomous factory in Long Beach, California By Mike Wall The company aims to revolutionize rocketry via 3D printing and intelligent automation.
Two private satellites just docked in space in historic first for orbital servicing By Elizabeth Howell In a historic first for satellite operations, one spacecraft "helper" docked with a working satellite to provide life-extension services.
NASA picks moon catapults, lasers, electricity and other wild lunar projects for student contest By Elizabeth Howell NASA has awarded nearly $1 million to student teams looking to deploy robots, towers and other small vehicles alongside moon-roving astronauts.
DARPA's hypersonic 'Glide Breaker' could blast missile threats out of the sky By Elizabeth Howell Aerojet Rocketdyne will develop "enabling technologies" for DARPA's Glide Breaker program under a newly announced contract, which is worth up to $19.6 million.
Satellite 'license plates' and re-igniting rocket fuel could head off space junk crashes By Mindy Weisberger In low Earth orbit's growing "space junkyard," new technologies could reduce the risk of collisions.
Trump's 2021 NASA budget request supports X-59 experimental supersonic jet development By Chelsea Gohd NASA renews funding support for their Lockheed Martin-built experimental supersonic X-plane, which the agency says will make its inaugural flight in 2022.
Space Force gets $15.4 billion in 2021 budget request By Mike Wall That's about 60% of what the White House allocates to NASA.
NASA's experimental X-59 supersonic jet could be built by the end of 2020 By Chelsea Gohd NASA's experimental, supersonic X-plane is on a fast track to flying.
SpaceX just destroyed a huge tank for its Starship on purpose. Here's the video! By Hanneke Weitering A prototype of SpaceX's Starship Mars-colonization spacecraft blew its lid in a crucial pressure test late Tuesday night (Jan. 28).
'Assembler' robots could build solar arrays and more on the moon By Elizabeth Howell Could robots help power NASA's quest to return humans to the moon?
