Practically a living legend in the modern aerospace industry for his advancements in rocket propulsion, Impulse Space Founder and CEO Tom Mueller knows a thing or two about designing reliable 21st ...

Space travel, exploration, and observation involve some of the most complex and dangerous scientific and technical operations ever carried out. This means that it tends to throw up the kinds of ...

Over the weekend the crew of the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission shared a wealth of details about the intriguing private mission that will send humans farther than they have flown from Earth in half a ...

Hayley Arceneaux had plenty to worry about before journeying into space for the first time. Her health history was unusual for a space traveller: she would be the first childhood cancer survivor to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the course of the last seven decades, the vast majority of satellites have launched into orbit with propulsion mostly as an afterthought. That’s not to say having thrusters is not important, but ...

Some of the biggest names in the space industry are billionaires: Elon Musk. Jeff Bezos. Richard Branson. The newest person to join this small cadre, at least by personal net worth, is Jed McCaleb.

Thousands of pieces of space debris, also known as space junk, are orbiting Earth, with tons more added each year. This orbital debris poses a significant threat to satellites, spacecraft, astronauts ...