Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

"Operation Space Station: High-Risk Build" debuts Nov. 5, 2025 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS. "Operation Space Station: Science and ...

Operation Space Station will air on November 5th and 12th, with the first part, High-Risk Build, focusing on the engineering and construction of the ISS. Part two, Science and Survival, will tell the ...

Stoke Space reveals that it has raised $510 million in fresh funding to accelerate development of its fully reusable Nova ...

Stoke Space is raising hundreds of millions of dollars in a funding round, according to a report published by The Information ...

September 23, 2025, Stoke Space raised $510 million in Series D funding led by Thomas Tull’s US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT) in conjunction with a $100 million debt facility led by Silicon Valley ...

Stoke Space is developing Nova, a medium-class launch vehicles whose two stages are both designed to be reusable. Credit: Stoke Space AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Stoke Space, a company developing a fully ...

NASA’s groundbreaking science missions, vital to exploring the cosmos and expanding humanity’s understanding of our place in the universe, are facing unprecedented threats. The White House has ...

In the early 1400s, nearly a century before Columbus’s fateful voyage to the Americas, China seemed most poised to use maritime might to create a global empire. Beginning in 1405, Ming Dynasty admiral ...

Oct. 6 (UPI) --The U.S. Space Force announced winning bids for missions, and SpaceX is the clear favorite. Space Systems Command awarded seven National Security Space Launch contracts last week. Five ...

WASHINGTON — NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off 550 employees this week, the latest round of job cuts at the space science center. In a brief statement released Oct. 13, Dave Gallagher, ...

The government may be shut down, but space exploration advocates are still pleading NASA's case on Capitol Hill. On Monday (Oct. 6), the nonprofit Planetary Society held a "day of action" to urge ...