Space

Breakthrough’s Starshot plan is looking for exoplanets in the “Goldlocks Zone” of the Alpha Centauri binary system that might support life.

One of 14 astronaut candidates selected by NASA in 1963, Cernan launched three times, including two missions that took him to the Moon.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX restored some of its luster Jan. 14 with the launch of a Falcon 9 for the first time since an on-pad explosion on Sept. 1.

U.S. companies will draw on their experience building scientific and commercial communications spacecraft to develop probes that will explore remnants of the early Solar System.

Tom and Jerry are more than an old-school cartoon, they are now an important cubesat experiment.

DARPA sees government and private-sector agreement on standards for rendezvous and proximity operations as essential to development of a successful commercial on-orbit robotic satellite repair service.

Iridium, the mission customer with its first 10 next-generation low Earth orbit communications satellites, said the launch has been rescheduled at 11:54 a.m. EST Jan. 14.

On Monday SpaceX plans to launch its first Falcon 9 since an on-pad explosion destroyed the Amos-6 Israeli communications satellite last Sept. 1.

With great maps from many sources, the head of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency looks for new paths in an increasingly competitive environment.

Medical experts assembled by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine are urging NASA to dig deeper into possible connections between the health and performance risks faced by humans assigned to long missions to deep space destinations.

Movement toward more frequent privatized human spaceflight is just one of the big achievements slated for 2017, whatever happens in the White House.

Whether the Trump election in the U.S. or the Brexit vote in the UK, 2016 delivered shocks to the global aerospace and defense industry that will reverberate through 2017.

SpaceX and ULA will go toe-to-toe for space launches in 2017, in both the commercial and defense realms.

Congress prioritizes readiness, troop increases over procurement in 2017.

Aerospace & Defense 2017 is the latest version of our annual predictor of trends to watch across all the fields we cover. With that issue in the bag, we talk with our top editors about what to look for in 2017.

Pentagon faces decisions on critical and complex military space systems as the commercial satellite communications market continues to evolve.

Private sector space initiatives are expected to continue and perhaps be bolstered under Trump administration.

The first American to orbit Earth and the oldest person to ever fly in space was both a straight arrow and a self-promoter.

What the space-launch upstart thinks went wrong in September, what the delay means for its customers and how the company has handled losses in the past. Plus, Orbital ATK’s Pegasus launch and a John Glenn remembrance.

Soyuz maybe nudged out of many launches due to the increased payload capability of the Vega C.

Jan Woerner’s Moon village concept is looking better to NASA, and the Trump administration could move things along faster.

The Sept. 1 launch-pad explosion, among other problems, is putting a crimp, for now, in the big plans for Elon Musk’s "new space" company.

The U.S. missed several opportunities over almost 70 years to expand hypersonics into research and development of operational systems.

America’s aerospace trade association said it is preparing for a “challenging” policy arena in both Washington and around the world.

SpaceX has yet to present a final report to the FAA’s commercial space office, which licenses commercial launches, on the company's September pad explosion that destroyed an Israeli satellite.