Space missions in the future could travel to Mars, asteroids and the outer solar system by riding on nuclear-powered rockets, ...

An enormous asteroid is approaching Earth at 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to us in two days' time. The ...

Data centers are a huge burden on natural resources. Some companies think the solution is to send them to space. reading time 6 minutes The world runs on data. As humanity’s information gets ...

Amazon made same-day delivery the benchmark on Earth. Impulse Space is pitching a similar concept for satellites bound for geostationary orbit about 22,000 miles above Earth, compressing what is ...

Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey, commander of U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, speaking at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Ala., discussed new initiatives to grow the Army's ...

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; ...

As you can probably imagine, we get tips on a lot of really interesting projects here at Hackaday. Most are pretty serious, at least insofar as they aim to solve a specific problem in some new and ...

The plane, flying at 36,000 feet, was suddenly struck by an unidentified object that smashed through the multilayered glass ...