The mission is designed to test solar sail technology to help NASA develop larger spacecraft in the future using this ...

Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

It would sail the cosmic ocean, driven by the force of starlight in the vastness of space. This animation details the piece-by-piece construction of the LightSail 2 spacecraft, as well as its ...

Lightsails should enable space missions to other stars. Researchers from the USA and the Netherlands have significantly ...

Narrator: Pressure from sunlight. It works similarly to how wind pushes against a sail on a boat. So too can sunlight push against a spacecraft to propel it through space. Incidentally ...

The spacecraft itself would be launched out of ... Instead of cloth and wind, though, a laser sail substitutes in advanced nano-materials and powerful laser light. A artist’s conception of ...

A spacecraft traveling at one-tenth of the speed of light could shave the trip down to a quick 40 years. Future engineers could use nuclear power to achieve that, says Scott Bailey, an engineer at ...

'It's a great spacecraft': Wilmore and Williams praise ship that led to extended stay on ISS ...

A NASA spacecraft will make its second close brush with the sun NEW YORK -- A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through the ...

Update: Intuitive Machines announced on 7 March that the Athena spacecraft had landed on its side in a lunar crater and has run out of power. The mission is over, because it has no way to recharge ...

Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images SpaceX launched another Starship rocket Thursday but lost the vehicle’s spacecraft not long after liftoff, the second such setback in a row for Elon Musk’s ...