Video shows NASA's futuristic solar sail technology prototype. Like a sail on the ocean propels a boat with the wind, this ...

Gilmour Space Technologies is a plucky startup in the new space race. Its first mission: sending a powerful hybrid rocket to the edge of space.

A new kit lets kids and adults alike perform experiments and build models of real spacecraft, just like the scientists at NASA. The NASA-approved littleBits Space Kit teaches users how to build a ...

For someone tasked with building a spacecraft to save the world, Andy Rivkin, one of the DART mission’s two lead investigators, is surprisingly nonchalant about it.

Building a rocket is hard. But building a parachute is boggling In 1971, the Apollo 15 spacecraft glided to a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on only two of its three parachutes.