The Orbital Carrier provides defense against space attacks from China and Russia A development launch could be ready by 2026 The vehicle is reportedly designed to hold more than 22K pounds of ...

The U.S. Space Force is keen to add to its arsenal a spacecraft that would essentially serve as the cosmic equivalent of an aircraft carrier. Appropriately known as an "orbital carrier," the ...

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That's it for our rolling coverage of today's space launch from the Gobi Desert. Thank you for following along. Scroll back through to relive the moment of lift-off and all our updates from the ...

That now classic tagline (from Alien, one of the greatest science-fiction horror movies ever made) hinges on a big assumption that most of us broadly make: space is empty. And it is—mostly.

China has launched a three-person crew to the Tiangong space station for the next six-month mission, which will see them carry out experiments on developing artificial brain models and the ...

Three astronauts have been sent to China's own space station to replace the current crew in a bid to reach the moon or even Mars. China has launched three astronauts into space on Thursday ...

A Pakistani astronaut will become the first foreign national aboard China’s Tiangong space station, as Beijing steps up space diplomacy amid a burgeoning battle with the United States for ...

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond ...

Access to and the ability to operate freely in space are vital to U.S. national interests. This framework presents the United States Space Force (USSF) current body of knowledge pertaining to ...