This 2,417-piece kit recreates a modified Boeing 747, which was used to ferry NASA Space Shuttle orbiters from landing sites ...

There, the aircraft touched down on a concrete runway that NASA and the Air Force once considered for Space Shuttle landings. Zachary Krevor, president and CEO of Stratolaunch, spoke with Ars on ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) are bringing us closer than we’ve been in decades to regular lunar exploration and scientific discovery. As a scientist, I admire what these ...

An aerospace engineer explains why NASA, Space Force and other agencies are using or testing aerobraking for more ...

The Conroy Virtus was a bold Cold War-era plan to transform two B-52 bombers into a single, twin-fuselage mega-plane capable of launching the Space Shuttle from 40,000 feet. Designed to ferry rockets, ...

The Space Shuttle looks all majestic when it’s blazing through the heavens. When it’s back down on the ground? Not so great. It can’t get far under its own steam, and even US freeways aren’t monstrous ...

The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided ...

Stratolaunch's Talon-A2 vehicle went hypersonic for the first time in December, then repeated the feat in March.

It’s slightly smaller than the 2,354-piece Discovery set that debuted in 2021, but Lego’s new Space Shuttle Enterprise is ...

On May 18, 2025, Lego will release the new Shuttle Carrier Aircraft kit that celebrates the storied space shuttle Enterprise ...

This is the first time anyone in the United States has flown a reusable hypersonic rocket plane since the last flight of the ...