Tag: Spacecraft

As the dust settled following SpaceX’s brief, explosive test launch of Starship in April, both the company and the Federal ...

Nearly one year ago, NASA flung the DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos at 14,000 miles per hour. It was ...

And nations should avoid cluttering those spots with mechanical detritus, which could complicate future missions. Like campers heading into the ...

When Suzanne Dodd’s team transmitted a routine command to Voyager 2 on July 21, the unthinkable happened: They accidentally sent ...

After Euclid blasts off, it will travel to a spot called Lagrange point 2, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, ...

China has landed a mysterious spacecraft that spent nine months in Earth’s orbit, making the nation one of just a ...

A boxy, 7.5-foot-tall spacecraft is making its final approach to the moon, where it will make history—if it touches down ...

As a newborn planet, Jupiter glowed brightly in the sky and outshined today’s sun from the perspective of the gas ...

First-time orbital flights can be challenging and often fail, like Relativity Space’s 3D-printed rocket, which launched in March and flew until ...

In a cosmological matchup of “Are they or aren’t they?” the contest is firmly in the former’s favor—10 to one, ...