With NASA's new chief taking over the agency recently, here's what NASA sees for the future of space exploration, along with ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have developed a groundbreaking plasma tunnel to simulate the extreme conditions spacecraft face during reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. This ...

As the space industry continues to grow, the environmental impact of space missions becomes an increasingly urgent concern. A new study published in Chem Circularity on December 1, 2025, proposes a ...

Just a week after their unprecedented return to Earth following a medical issue onboard the International Space Station, 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 ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is due to close down by 2030, and Russia, one of its main partners, is designing its own replacement orbital laboratory. After a decade of planning to place its ...

Today Psyche spacecraft on 2025 September 4 has a chance to look at 0.302 AU distance as 3I/Atlas passes by Mars. October, the martian spacecraft array on 2025 October 3 and the Juice spacecraft on ...

Early prototypes of the SpaceX Starship super-capsule that Italy is chartering to speed its spaceflight and biotech experiments to Mars (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) With its ...