The night sky above the world’s best observatories has long been prized for one thing above all: darkness. Now that darkness ...

A giant slingshot sounds more like a county fair stunt than a serious space plan. Yet one California company is trying to ...

"I hope that it makes it far enough away from the pad that it does not cause pad damage." ...

Voyager Technologies Inc. secures a 140,000-square-foot site in Long Beach. Voyager President of Defense and National security Matt Magaña said the move came from a recognition of South Bay’s ...

A decade after audiences marveled at the Matt Damon-led survival story The Martian, a new film is bringing a novel from sci-fi author Andy Weir to the big screen. But we at Popular Mechanics wondered: ...

SpinLaunch is developing a launch system that uses a massive, vacuum-sealed centrifuge to accelerate payloads to hypersonic speeds before releasing them toward space. Supported by NASA testing and ...

A California company has tech that will likely draw attention from the Punkin Chunkin community. That's because SpinLaunch is developing a large rotating arm that uses kinetic energy to fling ...

The Alaska Aerospace Corp. is building out a missile test range from Kodiak Island to the Aleutians. The southern edge of that range in Adak could also potentially include a spaceport. That's ...

Kinetic space launch startup SpinLaunch has announced the closure of a $30 million funding round to support the development and commercialization of Meridian Space, its own low-Earth orbit satellite ...

This article has been updated and corrected. Despite SpaceX decamping its longtime Southern California headquarters for Texas last year, the region remains an integral part of the national space ...

Auriga Space, a pioneering US-based company, is revolutionizing the space industry by developing a groundbreaking magnetic launch system that promises to significantly reduce fuel dependency and cost, ...