The California Science Center announced today that construction of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center is complete. Work on the building addition concludes four years after the June 2022 groundbreaking,

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? The systems flying today are the result of years (or ...

The experiment also showed that tuning the light beam controlled the propulsion—the stronger the laser, the greater the acceleration. “The laser pulse triggers a sharp acceleration peak, after which the aerogels slow down,” Braibanti explained.

Late last month Dream Chaser, a commercial U.S. space plane, received no mention during NASA’s in-depth “Ignition” briefing, which set out the agency’s comprehensive plans to return to the moon. Dream Chaser will not be part of that push—there’s little use for aerodynamic flight on Earth’s airless moon,

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple nations will launch missions aimed at finding habitable worlds, water on the ...

Each year, Space Science Week brings together leaders across the space science disciplines to explore the latest developments and discuss the future of the field from a variety of perspectives, from planetary protection to astrophysics to Earth science and ...

The winners of the inaugural Global Space Awards were recently announced at a star-studded ceremony at London's Natural History Museum. The event championed innovation and sustainability, while also celebrating the life of a late NASA astronaut. When you ...

In 1968, a film arrived unlike anything audiences had seen. Directed by Stanley Kubrick and written with science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey combined scientific rigor with