Generally speaking, space missions are being performed with lone spacecraft heading out into the void to achieve the desired goal of their makers. Sure, these machines might release other, smaller ...

Not many people celebrate their birthday by burning a fiery arc through the atmosphere, pulling 4.4gs in freefall back to planet Earth, thudding into the ground, and emptying their stomach on the ...

When cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang footed the cost of a SpaceX flight over the North and South Poles, he thought he'd be able to see signs of explorers and research activities below. But from 260 ...

Robots flying around in space seem more like fiction than reality, but recently NASA has been testing their free-flying robots called Smart SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, ...

From the Ohio State University Buckeyes to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to Cedar Point, the state of Ohio is known for a lot. But the Buckeye State hasn't just had an impact on this planet — it's ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

Shortly after the first manned space flight took off in 1961 with Yuri Gagarin orbiting Earth aboard the Vostok 1, astronauts started getting a bit more creative during their space flights by ...

Of the hundreds of professional astronauts who have flown in space, none has been openly gay at the time of their flight. Only three of them, all women and all NASA astronauts, have acknowledged being ...

"Its really important to be able to communicate with people in order to sell your ideas," says Astronaut Michael Good. Learn more about the importance of teamwork in any job field in this episode of ...

SpaceX has taken four polar explorers on a private Dragon spaceflight over the North and South Poles for the first time. When cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang footed the cost of a SpaceX flight over ...