Space

Richard Branson poses with Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger, two-pilot vehicle meant to ferry people into space, in Mojave, California, February 19, 2016. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters Virgin Galactic is set to fly …

For space enthusiasts who long dreamed of heading into the final frontier, the wait for decades could come to an end this July. In fact, billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are at the cusp of heralding in a new space age — one…

The sun erupted with a surprise solar flare on Saturday (July 3), the largest since 2017, in an early explosion of cosmic fireworks ahead of the Fourth of July. The solar flare occurred from a sunspot called AR2838 at 10:29…

Many people may not know that NASA has a vast catalog of free software available for anyone to download. Most of the software it offers was originally developed to help space exploration, and the programs are available for people to…

The Tiangong’s core module is set to become the first crewed vessel powered by ion drives – a technology that could slash journey times to the red planet The thrusters have been in use since the 1970s, but China hopes to develop them…