Space

A rocket is going up into space with a drag sail. The goal? For the drag sail to bring the rocket back to Earth, preventing it from becoming like the thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth’s lower orbit.

Space Force Vice Commander Thompson said the service wants to create a “21st century talent management and human capital strategy.”

The Japanese space startup ispace is launching a new “Blueprint Moon” data analysis service on top of its plans for private lunar landings after raising $28 million in new investments.

“The Right Stuff” now has a launch date.

DIU space director Butow: “We have the power where it make sense of leveraging and using public private partnerships to our advantage.”

A new study from The University of Texas at Austin is helping scientists piece together the ancient climate of Mars by revealing how much rainfall and snowmelt filled its lake beds and river valleys 3.5 billion to 4 billion years ago.

Imagine that the size of a bacterium is measured from a distance of about 4500 light-years. This would be an incredible measurement, considering that a bacterium is so small that a microscope is required to see it, and what an enormous distance light can travel in 4500 years, given that […]

SpaceX is still pressing ahead with its lawsuit against the Air Force over rocket development money the company didn’t receive two years ago — despite just winning a more than $300 million contract from the Air Force to launch military satellites during the 2020s. In a new court document, SpaceX […]