Would-be regulators seem determined to insert themselves into the final frontier. The only saving grace is that if they want to assert their presence, they'll have to hitch a ride from a private space ...

Northrop Grumman's first "Cygnus XL" cargo ship will depart the International Space Station Thursday morning (March 12), and you can watch the action live.

Feb 27, 2026 // Diplomatic Courier’s Stephanie Gull brings you weekly under–the–radar stories from around the world. This week in the Hinterlands: Scientists around the world are exploring how AI can ...

Since NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at Mars in 2006, the spacecraft has delivered some of the most detailed imagery ever captured of the Red Planet. The post Spacecraft exploring ...

"It's really not a question of robotic exploration or human exploration," Ehlmann said. "It is an 'and' — it's robotic and human exploration and how we do these best together." When you purchase ...

Ashley Corina Rodriguez is a communication arts major and an FIU Honors College student. She recently traveled to Washington, D.C. on an FIU fly-in seminar for students interested in learning about ...

Humans have been exploring space since 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. At the height of the space race, government agencies conducted all space missions, but that’s no longer the case.

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. We live in an extraordinary period of exploration. Over the last few decades, humanity ...