The European Space Agency was awarded Aviation Week’s 2015 Space Laureate for getting up close and personal with a comet—landing a robotic space probe on its surface and gleaning a wealth of information.

David W. Thompson and a pair of classmates from Harvard Business School launched Orbital Sciences Corp. in 1982 to, as they put it, ‘bring the benefits of space down to Earth.’ The company, with Thompson still at the helm, continues to innovate and expand its vision.

Seeing a potentially major new market, rocket and spacecraft builders are positioning themselves to appeal to designers of small satellite constellations.

"What's especially surprising about the aurora we saw is how deep in the atmosphere it occurs," said Arnaud Stiepen, a University of Colorado researcher.

Budget realities and better software may be thawing the U.S. government’s resistance to “non-traditional” space sensors to augment the high-priced systems it has developed and fielded over the years.

Technology for the James Webb Space Telescope may be applied to follow-on observatories with almost twice the aperture.

Modifications to the Falcon 9 v1.1 will lead to a new design for the SpaceX Falcon Heavy.

At least five companies are eagerly awaiting an expected NASA announcement June 10 of the winners in the second round of bidding for commercial cargo deliveries to the ISS.