Mauritania plans a national nanosatellite program to develop sovereign space capabilities and boost digital services nationwide. • The initiative aims to include low Earth orbit satellites, ground ...

Two tech titans want opposite futures—one keeps us grounded, one aims for Mars; guess whose plan wins now. If you squint, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk want the same thing: a thriving human civilization ...

Startup's radiation shield tech could bring high-performance AI chips to space Air Force backs startup's radiation-shield technology for space electronics ...

Starlab Space LLC has selected Louisiana-based Vivace Corporation to manufacture the primary structure for its next-generation ...

NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on September 22, 2025. The 10 candidates, pictured here at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are: U.S. Army CW3 Ben Bailey ...

NASA has awarded Katalyst $30 million to move forward with implementation under a Phase III award as an existing participant in NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, managed by the ...

Meanwhile, similar experiments appear to have occurred with the China National Space Agency (CNSA). Between July 2 and July 6, China’s Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 satellites appeared to merge in orbit.

Since the early 2000s, the International Space Station (ISS) has been continuously occupied with astronauts from the US, Russia, Europe, Japan, Canada and most recently, India.

Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies has scored a contract to raise the altitude of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been hunting for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from low Earth orbit ...

The first mission of the program, Artemis I, lifted off on November 16, 2022. The uncrewed flight to test the equipment was, overall, a success. From the first thundering moments of liftoff to the ...

A 10-day mission scheduled for early 2026 will circle the moon and NASA hopes it will pave the way to return humans to the moon as early as 2027.

The United States' civil space agency NASA has announced plans to launch a crewed mission around the moon in April next year, although it could potentially come as early as February.