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 ...

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 ...

The current ‘second space age’ has enabled multiple studies on the effects of spaceflight on human physiology and health, which are contributing to the development of measures that will be needed to ...

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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Let's imagine an astronaut suddenly collapses during a spacewalk and dies of cardiac arrest only minutes later. Thankfully, this has never happened. While 21 people have died in space, spacecraft ...

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 ...