With NASA planning to retire the International Space Station (ISS) by 2030, the spotlight is shifting to innovative companies like Vast that are poised to redefine how we live and work in orbit.

NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one of four “hazardous” space rocks to graze our orbit in less than 12 hours. Dubbed 2002 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In Orbit Aerospace won a $1.8 million AFWERX contract to employ artificial intelligence to detect and manage anomalies in hypersonic flight. In Orbit is developing machine ...

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The robotic X-37B has been in a highly elliptical, undisclosed orbit for 10 months since launching on its seventh mission on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in late December last year. The space ...

After spending a little over 10 months in space, the U.S. Space Force’s experimental spaceplane known as X-37B will attempt to use Earth’s atmospheric drag to change its orbit for the first time.

A U.S. X-37B space plane is slated to test a new way of rapidly changing its orbit, part of the Space Force’s quest for fuel-sipping maneuverability. The spacecraft will experiment with ...

Now, as the crewmembers near the end of their six-month-long stay in orbit, they've taken a look at where they came from. "Hello, I'm astronaut Ye Guangfu. Today, please follow my camera as we are ...

The U.S. Space Force announced that its X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle spacecraft, currently in orbit as part of the OTV-7 mission, will perform a series of innovative maneuvers known as aerobraking.

The rocket still managed to take off during its three-hour launch window, reaching a preliminary Earth orbit where it coasted for 15 minutes to gather data about Vulcan’s performance.

WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Barnard's star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun. At about 6 light years away, it is the closest ...

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