U.S. startup Astro Mechanica plans to take its hybrid-electric supersonic engine into high-altitude and high-speed ground testing this year as it moves toward flying the unique powerplant in 2027 in a ...

A rare chance to see some of the most recent discoveries in space science is headed to Vancouver. Next month, National ...

Eric Fossum, the inventor of the modern CMOS sensor and longtime friend of DPReview, was recently awarded the Draper Prize ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

ChibaTech's instrument package includes a multiband imaging camera onboard the ExLabs mothership and deployable Cubesat-shaped landers (called CubeLanders), designed to study the asteroid's surface ...

Ray Jayawardhana, the incoming president, is an astrophysicist, but leaders at the California Institute of Technology also ...

A relatively young personal aviation company, LEO Flight, has unveiled a new personal eVTOL called the jetBike.

On January 3, 2004, NASA’s Spirit rover successfully completed a major step in space exploration history, touching down on ...

An engineer who once worked with NASA says he has built a machine that can push against gravity without burning a drop of ...

Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage ...

Making the wings on passenger jets thinner and longer can go a long way toward reducing drag and making them more efficient, but they vibrate like crazy. Engineers at NASA and Boeing are now tackling ...

Jared Isaacman, a pilot and financial tech billionaire, has commanded two groundbreaking spaceflights, including leading the first private spacewalk. But his most remarkable flying has occurred over ...