Spacecraft

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

The lander, a six-meter Kevlar-inflatable disk, could carry heavier loads to the Red Planet

Over the years humans have deployed spacecraft into some wild, wacky, and extremely clever orbital configurations to better study the cosmos.

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

Bright spots in the latest pictures from NASA’s mission to the dwarf planet may be water ice, researchers say

The cargo vessel burned up over the Pacific Ocean around 10 p.m. EDT on Thursday

Two new studies hint at a richer picture of what’s happening on Saturn’s extraordinary icy moon Enceladus. At about 500 kilometers in diameter, Enceladus is a diminutive natural satellite.

Controversy swirls around a bold proposal for a bigger, better—and expensive—replacement for NASA’s premier space telescope

16-year-old Paul Vermeesch recreate the impossible structures in M.C. Escher's Relativity--but with a Star Wars theme--in LEGO.

The latest images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show a bright spot near the dwarf planet's pole

A mission to Jupiter's icy moon is our best shot at finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system

The suborbital "New Shepard" spacecraft reached an altitude of more than 93 kilometers in its inaugural flight