In lieu of cooperation, perhaps friendly competition between the spacefaring superpowers can ensure exploration benefits humankind In an ideal world, China and the United States, the two pre-eminent ...

Japan’s national space agency – the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) – was established in 2003, but the history of Japan’s space programs dates all the way back to early developments in ...

This week, America launched the first crewed deep space mission in over fifty years, and we should all be proud of the role North Alabama played in making it happen. Since the first lunar mission, the ...

Something remarkable happened on April 1, 2026 - and no, it was not a joke. Four astronauts lifted off from Kennedy Space Center aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, bound for the Moon, making it the first ...

Artemis II marked the first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years, in which we traveled farther from Earth than ever before and got our first look with the naked eye at parts of our natural ...

White Sands Missile Range has been a pivotal player in the evolution of missile systems, rocket testing, and space exploration. Since its inception in 1945, the range has facilitated a variety of ...

Space technologies quietly power many parts of modern life, from navigation apps to medical scans and weather forecasts. What began as research for astronauts and satellites now supports communication ...