The ancient Japanese art of paper-folding, or origami, is already inspiring the design of the next generation of space vehicles, but now there's a new family of origami shapes that could make them ...

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, CA – November 28, 2025 – Proteus Space announced the successful launch and first contact of MERCURY ONE, its inaugural four-payload ESPA class spacecraft. MERCURY ONE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 31, 1962, NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft. ['On This Day in Space' Video Series on Space.com]This ...

Scientists have mapped how different features of a space habitat could affect astronauts’ mental, emotional and social well-being, in a new study. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab National Security LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services ...

The U.S. Space Force is giving SpaceX latitude to design one of the military’s new low-Earth orbit satellite networks, ...

When rockets fire into space, the insides of their engines become an extreme environment where temperatures soar and tiny particles are thrown around at hypersonic speeds. These particles behave in ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab National Security LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch ...

The Apollo space missions of the 1960s, which took humans to the moon for the first time, relied on brute-force propulsion more than technological sophistication. The onboard Apollo Guidance Computer ...