Aerospace

Following a smooth cargo launch, a reusable Falcon 9 rocket booster touches down successfully on a drone ship

Jeff Bezos's private spaceflight company sticks another vertical landing in unmanned test

In 2018 the Space Launch System will carry 13 shoebox-size CubeSats into deep space

Today's Nuclear Security Summit tackles proliferation, and scientists try a way to trace gases from secret bombs

Former CIA chief Michael Hayden defends drone attacks, but critics fear they may do more harm than good.

The two robotic spacecraft are the first part of the two-phase European–Russian ExoMars program to hunt for signs of life on the Red Planet

Small, relatively cheap and quickly upgradable microsatellites could soon make weather prediction far more reliable

This interactive data visualization shows the birth year of every human who has been to space

Satellite-based navigation proved its mettle during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, leading to what some say is an overdependence on “jammable” GPS technology

This simple painting by Christine Rueter will mean volumes for those who remember the Challenger disaster. 

What can you create with 100 drones flying in formation? Intel and Electronica FutureLab partnered to answer that question, with spectacular results