Virgin Galactic launched its first tourist passengers into the weightlessness of space Thursday, the culmination of a nearly two-decade commercial pursuit, the company said. The three...
Virgin Galactic is set Thursday to finally begin commercial spaceflights, a major milestone for the company founded in 2004 by British billionaire Richard Branson. Its first...
Two years after awarding Elon Musk’s SpaceX a contract to ferry astronauts to the surface of the Moon, NASA on Friday announced it had chosen Blue...
The US company Orbit Fab is aiming to produce the go-to “gas stations” in space, its CEO tells AFP, hoping its refueling technology will make the...
Japan’s ispace on Wednesday became the latest company to try, and fail, at a historic bid to put a private lunar lander on the Moon. Only...
A Japanese startup attempting the first private landing on the Moon said Wednesday it had lost communication with its spacecraft and assumed the lunar mission had...
European Space Agency director Josef Aschbacher promised a “transformation” of the continent’s space sector in the coming years during an interview with AFP, including more collaboration...
Relativity Space, an aerospace startup that carried out the first test flight of a 3D-printed rocket, announced Wednesday that it will focus on a bigger rocket...
NASA revealed the names on Monday of the astronauts — three Americans and a Canadian — who will fly around the Moon next year, a prelude...
The world’s first 3D printed rocket is scheduled to make its third attempt to lift off on Wednesday for the maiden flight of an innovative spacecraft...