Rocket Lab is on a mission to become an end-to-end commercial space company, with a portfolio it says includes reaction wheels (flywheels with electric motors used for three-axis attitude control), ...

While asteroid mining is already being undertaken, the first mission didn't exactly go off without a hitch. Here's what ...

As global temperatures rise, scientists debate the pros and cons of solar geoengineering, a strategy to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight into space.

Bothell-based Portal Space Systems, a space startup developing satellite systems, has closed an oversubscribed $17.5 million seed round to accelerate development of Supernova.

Aetherflux, a startup founded by a physicist with a background in financial services, announced it was developing a novel ...

Rocket Lab USA Inc. has been busy this year. In addition to its latest launches, the Long Beach aerospace company has scored ...

Aetherflux announced it raised $50 million in a Series-A funding round to develop solar satellites that deliver energy to ...

Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within – ...

Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

Scientists are developing solar panels from moon dust that could turn the Moon’s surface into an energy source for future ...

True Anomaly, which was founded in 2022, bills Jackal as an autonomous orbital vehicle — "a multi-role spacecraft with a ...

Portal Space Systems has raised $17.5 million to accelerate the development of a space vehicle with a solar thermal ...