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But it's still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.
Particles behave differently when freed from the force of gravity. A new space factory aims to use this to synthesize pharmaceuticals.
Pessimism reigned supreme.
Memorial day is a time to remember veterans killed in the line of service. These spaceflight heroes deserve to be remembered, too.
Laser-guided lightning isn't the only manmade way to create lightning.
Without modularization, many epic projects simply would be impossible.
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works engineering division has devised many jaw-dropping aircraft. Here are some of the best — and one ship.
Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?
Instead of giving the 239 suffering families and the public a true story, Netflix exploited a horrifying tragedy to push conspiracy theories.
Some of them have survived the wilds of space for billions of years.
You can't throw a DART at everything in space.
Spying is not usually done these days with balloons because they're an easy target and are not completely controllable.
Air currents in our atmosphere limit the resolving power of giant telescopes, but computers and artificial stars can sharpen the blur.
One of Jetoptera's VTOLs is expected to reach speeds of around 614 mph, about as fast as a commercial jet airliner.
2023 will see the launch of new rockets, the return of OSIRIS-REx, and a mission to Jupiter that could help us find extraterrestrial life.
As far as we know, it's only happened once to one unlucky person in Oklahoma.
It is humanity's biggest step yet into the Solar System.
SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?
The DART mission tested whether it's possible to deflect an asteroid by crashing something into it.
Short-hop regional flights could be running on batteries in a few years.
UAP are no laughing matter anymore.
NASA was dangerously cavalier about the dangers of the shuttle launches.
The surface of asteroid Bennu is more like a plastic ball pit than the Moon.
More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here's why they're aren't yet off the ground and darting across city skies.
From Amazon to the US Army, everybody wants one (or 150).
The airships have a range of 4,000 nautical miles, can fly for five days, and can cruise as high as 20,000 feet at 80 mph. They take to the skies over Spain in 2026.
Experts believe they could cut the time it takes a rocket to reach Mars by up to 25%, shaving about two months off the trip.
It was supposed to have a 5.5-10 year lifetime, and take 6 months to calibrate. It's performing better than anyone anticipated.