NASA engineers explain how a new flat satellite design just worked in orbit, and why it could matter far beyond this mission.

A model developed by Luminary Cloud and Northrop Grumman can predict spacecraft thruster performance in seconds versus hours for traditional computational methods. Credit: Northrop Grumman Luminary ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second close flyby of the sun, the space agency announced earlier this week. The car-sized spacecraft swooped within 8 million miles (6.1 ...

Human spaceflight is once again confronting a familiar problem: how to protect astronauts during long missions far beyond Earth. Engineers at Russia’s Energia Space Rocket Corporation, part of the ...

The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.