Collision with NASA spacecraft altered shape of asteroid Dimorphos
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When NASA sent its DART spacecraft to slam into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, the U.S. space agency demonstrated that it was possible to…
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When NASA sent its DART spacecraft to slam into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, the U.S. space agency demonstrated that it was possible to…
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan on Saturday became the world’s fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon, as the space agency said its Smart Lander for…
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA on Tuesday added more delays to its Artemis moon program, scheduling for 2026 its first astronaut lunar landing in half a century while…
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA is set to delay its next few missions to the moon under a key program as technical hurdles mount with the various spacecraft…
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The solar wind is a ubiquitous feature of our solar system. This relentless high-speed flow of charged particles from the sun fills interplanetary space.…
(Reuters) – Weapons maker Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by a U.S. Department of Defense agency to develop a nuclear-powered spacecraft for the purposes of exploration and national…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s next-generation crewed spacecraft, which can transport up to seven astronauts, may fly for the first time between 2027 and 2028, a veteran Chinese astronaut said. China’s…
(Reuters) – A Russian spacecraft on a mission to bring back to Earth a crew stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) has docked at the station, Russian space agency…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A 17-metre-long Canadian-made robotic arm on the International Space Station will inspect a docked Soyuz spacecraft after a leak was noticed just before a spacewalk last week,…
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) – A coolant leak lasting for at least three hours Wednesday night aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule docked to the International Space Station could have…
(Reuters) – Hurtling through the solar system at hypersonic speed on Monday, NASA’s DART spacecraft slammed itself into a distant asteroid in a test of the world’s first planetary defense…
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON – Boeing Co is feuding with Aerojet Rocketdyne, a key supplier for its Starliner spacecraft, as the U.S. aerospace giant races to test launch the uncrewed…
US Astronaut To Fly Home On Russian Spacecraft Amid Rising Tension Laurel Duggan on March 14, 2022 American astronaut Mark Vande Hei will travel back to Earth with two Russians…
EXPLORATION PARK, Fla. – Today, Governor DeSantis announced Terran Orbital’s decision to choose Merritt Island for the construction of its Commercial Spacecraft and Constellation Facility, bringing valuable spacecraft manufacturing opportunities…
Engineers will drop a 14,000-pound test version of the Orion spacecraft into the Hydro Impact Basin at NASA’s Langley Research Center’s Landing and Impact Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia, at 1:45 p.m. EDT…