The history of Texas’ legacy in the space race from the ’60s-’70s is a storied one, and it started with a lot of hard work by ...

In May, a new achievement in the field of quantum science was published in the journal Science, with Chinese scientists ...

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we speak with two people – a planetary scientist who studies the geology of the Moon, and a space lawyer who studies space policy and geopolitics – about ...

The General Services Administration plans to cut its budget in half and ramp up monitoring of staff. And, Elon Musk could ...

Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...

The history of Texas’ legacy in the space race from the ’60s-’70s is a storied one, and it started with a lot of hard work by the Lone Star State to get America’s astronauts up to the stars.

A former American military base, said to be used for 'scientific research' but was home to a secret nuclear project, remains ...

Sea-based launches are hitting their stride. That could lead to a lot more space missions with a lot less red tape.

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The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...