The commission is concerned about the impacts that many sonic booms will have on both the local wildlife and neighborhoods in Santa Barbara County.
Read MoreSpaceX is finally reaching the point where its financial success should be benefiting the American people.
Read MoreNASA will pay for any designs it approves via a funded Space Act Agreement (SAA), rather than a firm fixed price.
Read MoreAs one of America's Space Age space men, Lovell forged a legacy by setting a number of remarkable firsts.
Read More"Just from an economic standpoint, it makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data."
Read MoreHappy 13th birthday to the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on August 6, 2012.
Read MoreDuffy's directive orders NASA to prepare a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor for launch by 2030.
Read MoreThe measure seems to be out of fear that employees could engage in corporate espionage to secure new jobs before they're laid off.
Read MoreWith competition for presence in and around the Moon heating up between the U.S. and China, this kind of system could be a critical capability.
Read MoreIs alien invasion armageddon coming for us in November? No, probably not. But it's worth thinking about
Read MoreRocket science being difficult is more than a comedic cliché. It's as hard as President Kennedy said it was in the early 1960s.
Read MoreThe mission, called Skyfall, would use a capsule to drop down towards the Martian surface, open up before it impacts, and out will fly the six helicopters.
Read MoreThere have been several attempts over the decades to build a so-called Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) vehicle, but thus far, none have succeeded.
Read MoreIn fairness, SpaceX may have a point. AST SpaceMobile's proposed satellites are the size of a tennis court and would be visible to the naked eye from the ground
Read More287 current or former NASA employees signed a letter detailing the destructive decisions that threaten to endanger lives and harm the public good.
Read MoreWhen President Trump signed the "Big, Beautiful Bill" into law, he also set aside $85 million for a Congress-authorized heist of the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Read MoreIn just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or 10% of the entire astronomical community's annual job.
Read MoreWhen conspiracy theories are inevitably debunked, the debunking is quickly counter-debunked, usually with a fresh ratcheting of the whole conspiracy framework.
Read MoreOut of the 122 lots, the main event is NWA 16788, a Martian meteorite that is the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.
Read MoreThe $1B dedicated to the X-35B is part of a $11.3B budget increase for Space Force amid the White House leaving civilian spaceflight on a shoestring budget.
Read MoreThese satellites are the sort of thing you really hope that nobody ever has to use. But if the very worst ever happens, you'll really, really want them to work.
Read MoreWhile originally conceived as an in-house job, NASA has since realized that its version of the plan would cost at least $7 billion.
Read MoreIn a classic case of trying to lose weight by cutting off your own head, it appears that over 2,500 employees are preparing to depart the space agency.
Read MoreThe U.S. Space Force and the entire private space industry are telling Congress this is a recipe for disaster.
Read MoreThe U.S. Air Force announced last Thursday that it's suspending plans for testing hypersonic rocket delivery systems on a remote Pacific atoll.
Read MoreThe ISS has been operational for well over two decades, but its days are numbered. Here's what the plan for human habitation in space is after 2030.
Read MoreThe object is likely a 12-mile wide asteroid or comet from way, way out of town that just happens to be passing through our neighborhood, but you never know...
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