Astronaut Dale Gardner holds a ‘For sale’ sign referring to the two satellites retrieved during STS-51-A mission - BBC/Keo Films/NASA Space travel should by rights make for rocket-fuelled television, ...

This year is the 25th anniversary of humans inhabiting the International Space Station. A new PBS documentary looks at how the ISS was built and the challenges of surviving in outer space.

When Joel Sercel thinks about the promise of extracting valuable resources from asteroids for use in space, he recalls other world-changing technologies that exploded when the time and circumstances ...

GOLDEN, Colorado — There are those who envision big bucks pouring in from the heavens by cashing in on resource-rich asteroids. In increasing number, probes are being dispatched by multiple countries ...

Canadian computer scientist Peter Todd, a Bitcoin Core developer, recently penned a blog post describing the feasibility of building Bitcoin mining facilities in the vacuum of space. According to Todd ...

The moon is about to become the first extraterrestrial mining frontier, and most investors may be backing the wrong players. While venture capital pours into space startups promising to revolutionize ...