Category: 2. Space

Living up to, and maintaining, the standard of excellence associated with NASA is what drives Robert Williams at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

A native of Gulfport, Mississippi, Williams said he has had the…

The space industry is entering a new era. No longer defined solely by national agencies and defense contractors, it now includes a fast-growing field of private innovators, venture-backed startups and visionary founders. In 2024 alone,…

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin formally delivered to NASA May 1 the Orion spacecraft for Artemis 2, keeping that mission on track for a launch in early 2026.

NASA took acceptance of the Orion spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, signing…

A beautiful but skewed spiral galaxy dazzles in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy, called Arp 184 or NGC 1961, sits about 190 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Camelopardalis (The…

WASHINGTON — Radian Aerospace, a company with long-term plans to develop a spaceplane, intends first to develop a reentry vehicle as both a technology demonstrator and for hypersonic test applications.

The Seattle based company announced…

A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved.

In light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us, astronomers have found a giant, almost perfect ring of galaxies, some 1.3…

WASHINGTON — Rocket propulsion startup Ursa Major Technologies has secured a $28.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to conduct the first flight test of its Draper engine, a storable, high-performance…