Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make it a reality. The Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission is scheduled for launch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's rapid progress in developing space-based capabilities is alarming, a US official said recently. China has made dominating ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will move the military’s US Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama — undoing a decision by the Biden administration to keep operations in Colorado Springs, ...

For decades, space travel has endured as one of humanity's most remarkable achievements. To launch a shuttle, be it full of human beings or without life of any kind, into space for observation, ...

SpaceX has won a lucrative contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based sensing and targeting data, forming the “backbone” of a rearchitected network after separate ...

The Pentagon and NASA cannot be dependent on one contractor for critical operations. While the political divorce between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump earlier this summer seems to have abated, ...

TOWARDS THE end of last year a pair of military satellites, one American and the other French, prepared for a delicate orbital minuet. They were about to conduct a so-called rendezvous and proximity ...

In 2019, then-President Donald Trump did something that hadn't happened in over seven decades: he formed a new branch of the United States military. The U.S. Space Force launched, taking much of its ...

After several tests of unusual “nesting doll” satellites in low-Earth orbit, Russia is now fielding operational anti-satellite weapons with valuable US government satellites in their crosshairs, the ...

Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. space stocks rose on Tuesday after Elon ‌Musk announced the merger of SpaceX and xAI ‌in a deal that valued the combined entity at $1.25 trillion, a major push to expand ...