Ultimately, the laser pistol’s practicality was limited by its low power, the fragility of space environments, and the unlikelihood of astronaut-on-astronaut combat.

A new crew will soon be heading to the International Space Station. It comes at a time of upheaval at NASA, where the agency ...

When Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla floated into the International Space Station (ISS) from the Crew Dragon capsule that had docked with it on June 26, he wasn't feeling too good. Despite being a ...

An analysis argues that deporting Elon Musk would severely cripple US space exploration and hand dominance to China, detailing past US space program failures and SpaceX's pivotal role in its ...

Rocket Lab built the twin spacecraft for the University of California Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory and NASA to enable the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE ...

A car-sized piece of Soviet rocket has crashed back through the atmosphere, after 53 years in orbit. Scientists haven't yet pinpointed its location but one organisation has predicted it had re ...

MOSCOW, April 17 — Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk yesterday, telling university students he was a pioneer comparable to legendary Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev. The ...

Putin likens Elon Musk to Russia’s rocket engineer Korolev, says such people are rare A mission to Mars would be very hard, the Russian leader noted MOSCOW, April 16. /TASS/.

A team of experts in Russia developed a new type of plasma electric engine that could reduce the travel time to just 30 to 60 days.

The Soviet Union’s answer to NASA’s Saturn V was the N-1, a monstrous moon rocket that never made it off the ground. Rushed, flawed, and plagued with failures, the N-1’s catastrophic ...

Unpacking claim famed rocket scientist 'predicted' in 1953 that Elon Musk would be leader of Mars The rumor stems from the writings of rocket science pioneer Wernher von Braun.