Once dominated by national space agencies, private companies are revolutionising the technology-constricted space travel industry. Exciting scientific developments are funded by impressive levels of ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who were stuck in space for more than nine months, took questions after ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Air Force hopes its unmanned X-37 (in taxi tests in 2007) will take on some of the functions of the shuttle USAF It's been a long wait—in some ways, more than 50 years—but in April 2010 ...

An uncrewed test rocket has fallen to the ground and exploded just seconds after it took off in Norway. German startup Isar Aerospace said this was an initial test as part of a project aimed at ...

Launching a rocket into space is a bit like jumping off a moving merry-go-round. You wait until you see the exit coming around, factor in the time it’ll take you to coil up and launch yourself ...

Spaceplanes are making a comeback! Dream Chaser is a modern take on the legendary Space Shuttle, built for safer, reusable, and cost-effective space travel. In this video, we explore how it works ...