KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — As SpaceX launched the four-person crew of the Fram2 mission on Monday night, it was a takeoff for the history books as they will be the first humans to ever orbit Earth ...

It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.

Vatican Observatory Report! Discover Br. Bob Macke’s work on asteroid Bennu and more groundbreaking science from VO ...

Bob Macke, S.J. on the NASA mission that returned to Earth a sample of the asteroid Bennu, work that has been discussed here ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most of them are found in the main asteroid belt, a region between the orbits of ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

Canadian satellite firm Kepler Communications has unveiled plans for on-orbit compute capacity through its optical inter-satellite links across its constellation the Kepler Network, and announced ...

which already has more than 7,000 satellites in orbit. One of SpaceX’s biggest advantages is that it can launch its satellites on its own rockets, which are by far the cheapest in the business.

WHERE IS THE best place to build a data centre? Not on Earth at all, but in orbit, claims Philip Johnston, chief executive of Starcloud. The cost of launching things into space is falling fast ...