The Dream Chaser space plane, a collaborative project between NASA and Sierra Nevada Corporation, marks a new chapter in space exploration. Designed to transport cargo and crew to low Earth orbit, the ...

Expanding human influence in outer space will require an ethical compass that is more expansive than the one conventionally used. “Mars is a failed Earth.” It is common enough to hear such ...

Discovery, the showpiece of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space ...

The first time you experience weightlessness in space, Tom Marshburn told me, all the noise and pressure of launch suddenly disappear. One moment, the roar of engines shakes every bone in your body; ...

Students move pieces around the board during a wargame based on Pacific conflict while attending Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, in 2023. (Billy Blankenship/U.S. Air Force) Lessons ...

As the number of Gen Z’s entry-level jobs shrinks, billionaires like Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos (pictured), and Elon Musk say the real growth is soon leaving Earth. Young people are getting the short end ...