On April 14, 2025, Blue Origin launched six women – Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn and Lauren Sánchez – on a suborbital journey to the edge of space.

Chinese scientists have discovered a new microbe that developed on board the county’s Tiangong space station, according to a new study. The strain, officially named niallia tiangongensis ...

Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing machines that can grow valuable materials in orbit that could be used in medicine ...

When President Donald Trump signed the Space Force into existence, he hailed space as the “world’s newest warfighting domain.” Five years later, the Space Force is fully embracing its role ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report that more than 6,600 tons of space junk are currently floating about in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), between 100 - 1,200 ...

The Space Force has defined what it means by “space warfighting” in a new document that service officials hope will give a clearer picture to guardians and joint planners of how the service ...

Blue Origin, a new entrant to the Space Force's National Security Space Launch program, flew its New Glenn rocket for the first time in January. (Miguel J. Rodríguez Carrillo/Getty Images ...

Falling costs, private investment, and new business opportunities are fueling a rapidly expanding space economy poised for major growth. Since ancient times, humans have dreamed of conquering the ...

Northrop Grumman will demonstrate satellite refueling in a forthcoming Space Force mission called Elixir. (Northrop Grumman) The Space Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to develop a ...

This essentially means that if there is some rapidly developing threat in space—say an adversary takes out a key national defense satellite—the military would like the capability to rapidly ...

Jed Mccaleb, the sole funder of Vast, is ready to sink $1 billion into the company’s commercial space station dreams, according to Bloomberg. “There’s not that many folks that are willing to ...

DENVER—The US Space Force lacks the full range of space weapons China and Russia are adding to their arsenals, and military leaders say it's time to close the gap. Gen. Chance Saltzman ...