WASHINGTON — Millennium Space Systems plans to launch to orbit a 3D printed metal flight structure the company intends to use to build its next generation of satellite buses. About the size of a small ...

In the 1990s, NASA designed an experimental space plane meant to be a cost-effective alternative to expensive rockets. Called the X-33, it was based on a concept called SSTO — or “single stage to ...

You probably already know that gravity can greatly influence cosmic objects as they make their way through space. We see this constantly in how the Sun's gravity causes planets to orbit it. And even ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; Image Processing by Judy Schmidt. Oh, Jupiter. If only the gas giant shifted its orbit slightly, becoming more eccentric (read: oval-shaped), it could ...

The Long March 2F carrying the uncrewed Shenzhou-22 spacecraft climbs into a blue sky above Jiuquan spaceport, Nov. 25, 2025. Credit: CASC HELSINKI — China’s secretive spaceplane has released an ...

Reaching orbit around Earth is an incredibly difficult feat. It’s a common misconception that getting into orbit just involves getting very high above the ground — the real trick is going sideways ...

A team looking at the dynamics of objects in the Kuiper belt, the ring-shaped region of icy bodies well beyond the orbit of Neptune, believe they have found evidence for a "very old, undisturbed ...