Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo took to the skies over Mojave, California May 1 for the first test flight of the craft's atmospheric re-entry system, which was modified after a fatal test flight ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. COLUMBUS, Ohio — Outer space glows with a bright fog of X-ray light, coming from everywhere at ...

Without this system it is not possible to determine a spaceship’s location precisely enough to engine-firing just right to go into orbit around a distant moon. With this technology, autonomous ...

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space plane broke apart just after its "feathering" re-entry system deployed early during a tragic test flight on Oct. 31 that left one pilot dead and another injured, ...

Humans have navigated by starlight for thousands of years, but NASA has a new appreciation for the twinkling bodies in our night sky. Using perfectly timed X-ray flashes from pulsars, scientists are ...

LOS ANGELES — Federal investigators say they have determined that a space tourism rocket broke apart in flight over California’s Mojave Desert after a device to slow the experimental spaceship’s ...

Virgin Galactic has successfully tested its newest spacecraft's "feather" re-entry system for the first time. That's what it calls the mechanism wherein the vehicle folds up its twin tail booms so ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A telescope mounted on the International Space Station (ISS), the Neutron Star Interior ...

Without this system it is not possible to determine a spaceship’s location precisely enough to engine-firing just right to go into orbit around a distant moon. With this technology, autonomous ...