Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...

Just a short distance inland from the waves crashing against California's shore, NASA's Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) CubeSat mission launched into the sky, taking off at 2:13 p.m. ET ...

Small spacecraft also have the potential to expand their capabilities with deployable booms, sails and antennas. For instance, atmospheric drag sails are becoming an increasingly proven way for small ...

There’s no electrical power grid in outer space, so the electrical power subsystem needs to deliver the spacecraft’s ...

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million ...

Athena EPIC is poised to serve as a pathfinder for space startup NovaWurks and its sensorcraft architecture, demonstrating a ...

NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects of space weather.

See multiple angles of the deployment of the shoebox-sized BurstCube and SNOOPI (Signals of Opportunity P-band Investigation) ...

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...

NASA’s AI-powered satellite makes real-time targeting decisions in space—autonomously and in under 90 seconds.

TRACERS launch paves the way for NASA to study magnetic reconnection and how solar activity affects near-Earth space.