In anticipation of many Moon landings to come, NASA is testing an autonomous lunar landing system in the Mojave Desert…
Good news from The Planetary Society: LightSail 2's solar sail is functioning as intended. After launching on June 25th, then…
Elon Musk has posted a four-panel video of the Falcon re-entry on his Twitter feed and it's driving even jaded…
LightSail 2, the brainchild of The Planetary Society, has gifted us two new gorgeous images of Earth. The small spacecraft…
A satellite tracker from The Netherlands recently spotted and photographed the USAF's elusive and top-secret X-37B space plane.
Mystery. Secrecy. A Need-To-Know Basis. These are the hallmarks of science. Wait a minute: no they're not. So what's with…
How do spacecraft know where they are? There's no GPS out there. Right now, it involves sending a signal to…
One of the obstacles to long space missions is the muscle loss that astronauts suffer from. It's called atrophy, and…
The ESA is developing its own spacecraft capable of re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. The reusable spacecraft is called the Space…
The Planetary Society is going to launch their LightSail 2 CubeSat next month. LightSail 2 is a test mission designed…