Six years later, he was the first to pilot the X-15, a new experimental aircraft that was the world’s first plane to fly into ...

NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took flight with a teacher on board. Christa McAuliffe, the first educator ...

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether Earth is truly unique. By Natalie Wolchover Troy E. Meink’s comments were the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the future of astronautics and space technologies. That visibility naturally invites a follow-on question: what comes next ...

£7.8 billion has been earmarked to support the UK’s national security and defense plans between now and 2030.

The International Space Station is a microgravity research lab hosting groundbreaking technology demonstrations and scientific investigations. More than 3,700 investigations conducted to date have ...

Space Science Week is the joint meeting of the Space Studies Board of the U.S. National Academies discipline committees in collaboration with the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and Board on ...

This is the next flagship space observatory.

In June, the White House released a budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 that slashed funding for NASA’s science programs by nearly 50 percent. Then, in July, the Trump administration began telling ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is due to launch Aug. 30 from Florida. Here's how it could transform what we know about the universe.

NASA is ready to explore the cosmos in a whole new way, thanks to its next-generation Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Scientists and engineers have spent some twenty years designing and building ...

The first appearance of a wormhole in Star Trek was a typically pioneering reference to what was then a niche research topic.