HOUSTON—Recent remarks by NASA’s acting administrator help define his commitment to keeping the U.S. ahead in space by returning Artemis astronauts to the Moon ahead of China and leading the way to ...

Reaching Europa remains one of the hardest challenges in space exploration. Explore the massive spacecraft, fuel, and time requirements for a human mission and why today’s technology still falls short ...

As the space economy accelerates into the commercial frontier, once the exclusive domain of the Cold War geopolitics and scientific discovery, it is now increasingly defined by private investment, ...

Mars, once a distant dream, is now the prime focus of space exploration, driven by advancements in technology. With its ...

The Apollo space missions of the 1960s, which took humans to the moon for the first time, relied on brute-force propulsion more than technological sophistication. The onboard Apollo Guidance Computer ...

Submarines are emerging as a unique research platform to study human adaption to extreme environments—from ocean depths to outer space. ESA, the Portuguese Space Agency and the Portuguese Navy are now ...

On April 14, 2025, Blue Origin launched six women—Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn and Lauren Sánchez—on a suborbital journey to the edge of space. The headlines ...