NASA Perseverance rover is now on Mars and busily collecting samples, storing the specimens in tubes, then depositing those tubes on the surface for later pick-up. Image credit: NASA. NASA’s ...

David Ariosto is a journalist, author, and the host and founder of the Space Watch Daily podcast. He has spent more than two decades covering emerging geopolitical issues, technological trends ...

Space mining startup AstroForge just got a little bit closer to achieving their goal of mining asteroids for precious metals, after announcing in a press release shared with SpaceRef on Wednesday ...

NASA recently announced its latest challenge with Freelancer.com: The space agency has asked researchers and engineers on the platform to create new methods of refilling propellant in space.

Kyrsten Sinema begins the committee hearing. Image credit: Senate Space and Science Subcommittee broadcast. On Wednesday, Space industry figures from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic ...

NASA illustration of a future lunar outpost. Image credit: NASA. The concept of lunar habitation holds profound implications for scientific exploration, resource utilization, and the expansion of ...

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern posits that the large, approximately 5-kilometer-long mounds that dominate ...

Also, a Texas government official told SpaceRef that SpaceX may need an environmental permit before an October Starship launch.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc., an end-to-end space transportation company, was awarded an $18 million NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract to provide radio frequency calibration ...

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. In less than a month, NASA is scheduled to embark upon a series of firsts: The first journey to an unknown metallic asteroid, Psyche. The first deep space use of ...

Illustration of a Galactic Energy Ceres-1 rocket. Image credit: Galactic Energy. China has given rise to more than 20 commercial launch companies since 2014, with each trying a slightly different ...

Leonard is author of Moon Rush: The New Space Race, Mars – Our Future on the Red Planet, and co-authored with Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin of Mission to Mars – My Vision for Space Exploration ...