Philosopher Bernard Williams said September tries its best to have us forget summer, but these spaceflight images from the past month point us to the future.
The Louisville space company’s valuation has jumped to an impressive $5.3 billion after securing $290 million in its second Series B funding round.
The U.S. Space Force has expressed concerns about China's lack of transparency when it comes to its activities in space.
The Air Force and the FAA denied permission for Varda Space's capsule to return and land on Earth.
Levitating conveyor belts, asteroid spaceships, and crater telescopes, oh my!
This week, Gizmodo delves into the modern space frontier, charting key players, challenges, and dreams driving today's New Space Race.
Explore July's top space-themed images, showcasing a historic final launch, Barbies in space, and exploding rocket engines, among many more.
The unusual object—possibly a rocket fragment—surfaced on a Western Australian beach this past weekend.
Under the $112 million contract, Firefly will attempt to place a lander on the Moon's far side and deploy a European satellite.
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Called SUSIE, the reusable spacecraft would be capable of delivering crews and cargo to space, and perform vertical landings when returning home.
The Moon-bound spacecraft is apparently healthy and gearing up for its first trajectory correction maneuver.
Space Perspective's planned $125,000-a-seat ride is heavy on the ambiance, if gazing down on Earth isn't thrilling enough.
The mission may have enough fuel to last over a decade, thanks to an ultra-precise launch.
In an update, NASA said the company had made progress on resolving the oxidation valve issue that scrapped its August test launch.
An abundance of caution and a cosmic interruption have postponed the rotorcraft’s fourteenth flight.
“Admittedly these customers are not ‘regular people’—they are extremely rich people.”
After what we’ve seen over the past few weeks, it goes without saying that a little helicopter built by NASA can pack a big punch. The space agency’s Ingenuity helicopter nailed its fifth scheduled flight on Mars on Friday and completed its initial objectives. It will now embark on a new mission on the faraway…
A lot is made of how prophetic SciFi is supposed to be. And it certainly has seemed to hit the mark pretty often and pretty remarkably. But some of its most impressive hits depend on just what you mean by “prophecy.” There are, it seems, four ways in which SciFi can appear prophetic. 1. The…
Remember when you were three and thought “I want to be an astronaut” but then you left home to became a waiter then a mackerel fisherman in the middle of the Atlantic then a male stripper/occasional porn actor then a surfer instructor then an art teacher onboard a Swedish ship school, and then became a…
