SpaceX’s Elon Musk says he will rocket Optimus bots on the first Starships sent to Mars, but a leading robotics scholar predicts their space odyssey will be short-lived.

Columbia mission commander Rick Husband is most often spoken of in the context of his death alongside his fellow astronauts in 2003. However, he is remembered by his hometown of Amarillo as a ...

In case you hadn’t noticed, we live in a dangerous world. While our soft, fleshy selves are remarkably good at absorbing kinetic energy and healing the damage that results, there are very ...

All of this went well on the previous Starship test flight August 26, when SpaceX rebounded from four consecutive failures—three in flight and one on the ground. With the next Starship launch, ...

NASA and Sierra Space have agreed to change their deal for its Dream Chaser spacecraft, which will now have its first launch delayed another year.

Flying 250 miles overhead, the international space station can be seen with the naked eye, orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes, usually carrying a crew of six. Now, before construction of the station ...

Tokyo wants to double the size of the Japanese domestic space market, to ¥8 trillion (about $54 billion) from ¥4 trillion in 2020 by the early 2030s. By then, Japan wants to launch some 30 rockets ...

Bian Zhigang, vice administrator of CNSA, outlined a number of recent successes, including the Chang'e 5 and Chang'e 6 moon sample-return missions, some of the material from which has been sent to ...

The International Space Station faces deorbiting by 2030, and hopes for a shuttle-style visit by Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser are growing slim.

Tyman Clements has two offices: one in Lexington, and the other in space. From a Lego-clad workspace off Winchester Road reminiscent of a high school science classroom turned robotics startup, ...

SpaceX is setting its sights on an ambitious goal: an orbital flight for its next-generation vehicle, Starship, in 2026. This announcement comes as the company gears up for the 11th test flight of ...

Last week, Arizona senator and retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly along with Senators Mark Warner (D-VA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) called on Senate Appropriators to block any federal ...