This week, China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft sent back its first image from space. It’s headed to a rendezvous with the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, one of Earth’s “quasi-moons,” where it will collect samples in ...

Two space companies have collaborated to demonstrate automated close approaches between spacecraft using a single camera as the primary sensor.

The organizations and leaders who will thrive in the decade ahead aren't the ones changing fastest. They're the ones who can hold paradoxes without rushing to false resolution, investigate truth ...

As the International Space Station nears retirement, a bipartisan senatorial group proposed a National Institute for Space Research for U.S. microgravity research. A bipartisan group of senators wants ...

A Long March 6A rocket lifts off at night from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in China, carrying the Yaogan-40 (03) remote sensing satellites. Credit: Ourspace WASHINGTON — The United States is at ...

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A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

President Donald Trump announced the U.S. Space Command headquarters will relocate from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama. Colorado has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, claiming the ...

Researchers taught young loggerhead turtles to associate certain magnetic fields with feeding, prompting a distinctive dance when they recognized the signal. After a magnetic pulse briefly disrupted ...

Despite the 20 years between them and just under a year of knowing each other, Nichole McGruder, 43, and Chloe Denning, 19, talk more like friends than a counselor and client. But, as McGruder says, ...

The reality of space exploration isn’t quite how Hollywood depicts it. There aren’t yet any Star Wars-type hyperdrive thrusters, and the tech needed for a Star Trek-style energy transporter remains a ...