You did a great job wrapping the presents, but your work isn’t done yet. The gift still needs ribbons and bows. It may sound like a daunting task—something only one of Santa’s highly trained elves ...

Benchmark Macaw ASCENT thruster during hotfire testing Benchmark’s 22-Newton Macaw ASCENT thruster during hotfire at the company’s propulsion test facility near Pleasanton, California. Credit: ...

For the better part of two months last year, most of us had no idea how serious the problems were with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft docked at the International Space Station. A safety advisory panel ...

"High visibility" means they can't cover it up. That it's a criterion for reporting means that NASA management are deliberately hiding problems that should be reported to the safety review panel.

WASHINGTON — NASA’s safety advisers are recommending that the agency reconsider its Artemis lunar landing architecture as well as how it handles incidents such as the flawed Starliner test flight.

2025 was a very busy year in spaceflight. Over the past 12 months, we saw multiple spaceflight records broken, the debut of a powerful new reusable rocket and the first-ever fully successful private ...

There may be no enterprise that lends itself so well to the camera as space travel. The universe is a riot of color and light—of galaxies and planets and brightly hued moons. The people who explore ...

Artemis II crew members stand before the Orion crew module that will take them to the moon. From left are: Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; Victor Glover, pilot; Reid Wiseman, commander; and ...