Space

The feat makes Firefly Aerospace the first private space firm to achieve a fully successful moon landing after another Texas company's craft made it to the moon last year but tipped over after landing.

Plus, the world's fastest supercomputer can compute 2.7 exaflops, an AI system generates street images from an audio recording, and a 3D printable add-on uses the heat of a PS5 to keep pizzas warm.

After multiple years of work, along with some setbacks, students in Centaurus High School's physics club are ready to build a space plane with a goal of contributing to climate change research.

The Parker Solar Probe, partly designed by students and researchers in Colorado, survived its closest encounter with our sun late last week, passing a mere 3.8 million miles from its surface.

At a headquarters in Kent, Wash., engineers are assembling giant barrel-shaped sections of a rocket and two very different engines designed to make not just the booster but the upper stage of the spacecraft reusable.

The Texas A&M University Space Institute will be a four-story building on 32 acres at the entrance of NASA's Johnson Space Center, with room for robots and vehicles, lab spaces, offices, classrooms and an auditorium.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia wants to make the Pittsburgh region a leader in space, regardless of how her Congressional allies might change after next week's election.

The U.S. Space Force on Friday announced the first two task orders under a revamped five-year program that awards national security missions, and both of the awards went to SpaceX.

After a decade of advocacy from scientists, the mission may launch as early as Friday, and will investigate Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which is suspected of harboring a vast ocean capable of supporting life.

The university's new facility includes dedicated lab space for designing and building satellites, a digital engineering lab, and a nanofoundry to develop new materials for satellite construction and quantum computing.

Cyber threats to water systems, electrical grids and the space sector are on the rise, but new resources, policies and strategies could help.

Calling regulators' actions against the company nonsense, SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell updated lawmakers on the company and urged them to continue support.

Ham the “Astrochimp” made history when he became the first member of his species to be launched into space in 1961. But after becoming famous, he lived alone for almost two decades, historians said.

The National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation will co-fund two new AI research programs for astronomical sciences across several partner universities, intended to make huge volumes of data more intelligible.

The newly created Texas Space Commission is looking for applicants for grants from the Space Exploration and Aeronautics Research Fund, marking one of the first tangible actions of the agency.

Aging infrastructure, short-term thinking and ambitions that outstrip its funding are just a few of the problems threatening the future of America's vaunted civil space agency, according to a new report.

SpaceX has announced that it will be moving its company headquarters to Brownsville, Texas, and as such, Brownsville Mayor John Cowen recently discussed what it means for his city.

The arrival this week of Blue Origin’s new rocket landing support ship marks a busy time for Port Canaveral as a mix of government and private maritime ship traffic begins to pick up steam.