One of the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope’s reaction wheels — devices that maintain the observatory’s position in space — remains balky despite mitigation attempts, NASA said April 29. The ...

WASHINGTON — A reaction wheel on NASA’s Kepler spacecraft continues to experience elevated levels of friction after a brief rest period, but project officials say that does not necessarily imply an ...

Over the past few decades, numerous space probes sent to the far-flung reaches of the Solar System have fallen silent. These failures weren’t due to communications problems, probes flying into ...

Millennium Vice President of Product Development, Dr. Jeffrey Ward, commented, “SSL's production order is an early payback on our decision in 2012 to invest in and pursue internal development of ...

A novel photography drone has started operation in the International Space Station. Called Int-Ball and created by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), it moves around the station without ...