The Liquid Oxygen Flight demonstration (LOXSAT) will help NASA test and develop technologies to support in-space transfer and storage of cryogenic propellants, critical abilities for the Artemis program to return astronaut…
Plotting the optimal trajectory to visit multiple asteroids is a fiendishly difficult take on the Traveling Salesperson problem, but a new mathematical approach has succeeded in solving it.
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On May 8, the Pentagon released its first tranche of “UFO files.” Space.com reached out to experts to make sense of this highly anticipated data drop.
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SpaceX will launch its first Starship V3 vehicle on the Flight 12 test flight on Thursday (May 21).
A Vega C rocket launched the European-Chinese SMILE space weather mission to orbit on Monday night (May 18).
A new NASA video shows the Artemis 2 Orion capsule’s separation from its service module just before the spacecraft slammed into Earth’s atmosphere on April 10, 2026.
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SpaceX is now targeting a Friday, May 22, launch for its newest Starship design, the Starship V3 megarocket.
What a view from the Orion capsule.
Much of the UFO imagery that the Pentagon released last week was new, but we’ve known for decades about the odd things that the Apollo astronauts saw on and around the moon.
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The space industry’s plans to launch millions of satellites worry scientists as the rise in high-altitude air pollution threatens to alter Earth’s climate.
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