Commercial space is the wave of the past

The surface of Mars is the most ambitious target for human explorers in the foreseeable future, given the state of technology, funding and political will today, according to a U.S. National Research Council study team that examined the issue over the past year and a half.

For the first several decades of human space activity, the economically and militarily valuable region of near-Earth orbit seemed like an infinite resource.

Commercial cargo-carrier upgrade could ship supplies to deep space

Britain’s 25% boost in space spending attracts foreign investment

U.S. commercial imagery provider DigitalGlobe posts electro-optical images of eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region.

Boeing CEO Jim McNerney talked at the company’s headquarters in Chicago with Editor-in-Chief Joseph C.

No doubt there was a lot of eye-rolling at NASA headquarters back in May when the Government Accountability Office faulted the agency for its lack of rigor in estimating life-cycle costs for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS). Certainly no one there who wants to see the big booster built is eager to draw attention to its price tag. But no one knows the costs of SLS or any of the other hardware NASA needs to fulfill its mandate to explore space.