Aerospace

At 8:52 P.M. Eastern time, July 14, 2015, an all's-well signal from the New Horizons spacecraft finished its 4.5-hour, three-billion-mile trip from near Pluto through the solar system to alert mission control on Earth that it was in working order and had succeeded in gathering data

At just before 7:50 A.M. today, July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto. After a 9.5-year, three-billion-mile voyage, the ship got within about 7,750 miles from the surface

The destruction of an unmanned rocket Sunday comes at a tricky time for NASA and the International Space Station

Norman Augustine, former CEO of Lockheed Martin and former undersecretary of the Army talks about the report he co-chaired for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, "Restoring the Foundation: The Vital Role of Research in Preserving the American Dream"    
 

NASA’s former director of astrophysics plans to revolutionize space science with agile, privately funded missions

In celebration of the Philae lander waking up from its long slumber, we take a look back at other spacecraft that have experienced resurrections

Controversy aside, work on NASA’s next deep-space rocket continues unabated

Is NASA's Space Launch System a flying piece of congressional pork or our best shot at getting humans to deep space?

A solar-powered plane will fly for an estimated five days and nights—or ditch in the ocean

With its LightSail project, the Planetary Society aims to take the next step in its decades-long quest to transform spaceflight

Overshadowed by the success of NASA's Mars rover missions, few recall that the USSR once had its own rover program.