In orbit above Earth, a small spacecraft has quietly crossed a line that space engineers have been approaching for decades, using artificial intelligence to decide how to point itself without waiting ...

"This successful test marks a major step forward in the development of future satellite control systems." For the first time, ...

The European Space Agency has released the closest-ever spacecraft images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, marking a major ...

Wrapping up 204 days in orbit, three Chinese astronauts flew back to Earth aboard a Shenzhou spacecraft Friday, leaving three ...

As a true milestone on the path to autonomous space systems, a research team at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) ...

This project implements a computational simulator that derives gravitational orbital dynamics from pure superfluid hydrodynamics without invoking Newton's gravitational constant G. Bodies are modeled ...

Royal Marines have taken part in a major war simulation in Norway as part of Exercise Tarasiss, the most ambitious Joint Expeditionary Force operation since NATO’s 2014 Wales Summit. Troops from 40 ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Upstate Community Hospital has introduced a new birthing simulator aimed at improving the safety of childbirth for both mothers and babies. The high-fidelity mannequin provides ...

Rocket Lab—the operator of the world’s second-busiest orbital rocket—has been touting its vision for a Mars Telecommunications Orbiter. Rocket Lab’s founder and CEO, Sir Peter Beck, laid out a ...

Rocket Lab shared its vision on X, formerly Twitter, stating, "Talk first. Land later," while unveiling plans for the MTO. The company described the satellite as a persistent, high-bandwidth ...

The computational algebra system Maxima is used together with the fourth order Runge-Kutta method to generate simulations of orbits caused by the newtonian gravitational interaction. Such dynamical ...

Blue Origin is proposing a version of its Blue Ring spacecraft to serve as a Mars communications satellite. Credit: Blue Origin WASHINGTON — NASA is still working on a strategy to procure a Mars ...