Six years later, he was the first to pilot the X-15, a new experimental aircraft that was the world’s first plane to fly into ...

A pocket-sized, roughly $100 detector can reveal the invisible stream of cosmic particles constantly passing through Earth ...

Ghana and Japan are exploring deeper cooperation in space science, technology and innovation, with both countries ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took flight with a teacher on board. Christa McAuliffe, the first educator ...

China has presented lunar samples retrieved by its Chang'e 6 mission from the far side of the moon to the United Nations, marking a landmark contribution to global space science and the peaceful ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the future of astronautics and space technologies. That visibility naturally invites a follow-on question: what comes next ...

Outer space has officially lost its status as a weapons-free zone. Ever since satellite technology transformed modern ...

Space Science Week is the joint meeting of the Space Studies Board of the U.S. National Academies discipline committees in collaboration with the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and Board on ...

NASA is moving into a new phase of space exploration, with major progress across human spaceflight, science missions, and advanced technology. In just one year, the agency has launched multiple crewed ...

In June, the White House released a budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 that slashed funding for NASA’s science programs by nearly 50 percent. Then, in July, the Trump administration began telling ...

The first appearance of a wormhole in Star Trek was a typically pioneering reference to what was then a niche research topic.