Space

SpaceX's crew Dragon Endeavor was docked with the International Space Station on July 1, 2020.NASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration brought astronauts aboard the International Space Station for two decades last year.…

Update, March 18: This essay has been revised to reflect that the Space Launch System has completed its second hot fire test.Eleven years in the making, NASA's most powerful rocket since the Apollo program has finally stood upright. Framed…

Here’s what you need to know:Target will cease operations in the City Center building in downtown Minneapolis, relocating 3,500 employees.Credit...Lucy Nicholson/ReutersTarget, a fixture in downtown Minneapolis, is giving up space in a…

The row of two-story 3D printer bays is located at the company's headquarters.Relativity spaceThe founders of two private rocket construction companies met today - one, the richest person in the world; the other, the head of a company that…

Many launch vendors believe that reusability is the best way to reduce space costs and delays. SpaceX and Rocket Lab have shown reusable first stages that will take a payload to the edge of space - and now Stoke Space Technologies…

More than 7,500 people signed a petition urging The Times not to publish his name, including many prominent figures in the tech industry. "The petitioners gave his full name on The Times and said" would seriously damage public discourse by…

Beijing’s rush for antisatellite arms began 15 years ago. Now, it can threaten the orbital fleets that give the United States military its technological edge. Advanced weapons at China’s military bases can fire warheads that smash…

George Carruthers built his first kit telescope in 1949 when he was 10 years old and lived in rural Ohio. Fascinated by space, he devoured magazine articles about space travel.If the unknown was to be explored, he wanted to be part of…

Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit with a missile under the wing of a modified Boeing 747 aircraft launches July 10, 2019 in Mojave, California, in a major drop test of its high altitude satellite launch system.Mike Blake | ReutersVirgin…

NASA has spent years and billions of dollars developing a giant rocket known as the Space Launch System, which is supposed to take astronauts to the moon and perhaps one day further into the solar system. The rocket's first launch - an…