They were custom made for each astronaut and sewn by expert seamstresses who learned to stitch multiple layers of synthetic ...

Axiom Space expects the first two modules of its commercial space station to come together in orbit in 2029 as the company simultaneously advances new lunar spacesuits, sovereign astronaut missions ...

Singapore is known globally as an international centre for finance and hub for global transport, but is arguably less well ...

This article argues that space taxation should not be seen merely as a technical or administrative issue. Properly designed, it can play a central role in shaping the development of the space economy, ...

President Rodrigo Duterte signs the Philippine Space Act (RA 11363), August 2019.

UK-based space domain awareness (SDA) and space intelligence firm Spaceflux has won three multimillion-pound, multiyear UK government contracts to provide advanced space surveillance and tracking (SST ...

Captain James “Jim” Lovell, one of NASA’s most storied astronauts and commander of the ill-fated but heroic Apollo 13 mission, has died aged 97. A veteran of four spaceflights – Gemini 7, Gemini 12, ...

Arguably, members of the space community reside in one of two camps regarding Elon Musk: those who feel he is a publicity-seeking egotist with a crazy wish to colonise Mars; and those who know he has ...

As a physicist, avid science fiction reader and experienced research project leader, the author of this primer on the science of interstellar travel thought he was “mentally prepared to think out of ...

You know from the start that this is one of those ‘does what it says on the tin’ books. The title suggests astronauts are surplus to requirements; the subtitle substitutes robotic explorers; and most ...

Nanotechnology is one of this century’s ‘buzzwords’ and has been applied, to some extent, to almost every branch of technology, so it is no surprise that it should be applied to space. This academic ...

The return of humans to the Moon will have to wait a while after NASA leadership announced that the Artemis II lunar orbital mission will now slide to September 2025 and the Artemis III landing flight ...