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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two Mercury-bound spacecraft left their mother ship behind on Thursday and headed down the home stretch of their nearly decade-long voyage to the solar system’s smallest ...

As demand for AI infrastructure continues to outpace supply on earth, investors are beginning to focus on orbit as next ...

A pair of private spacecraft just showed off some impressive maneuverability high above Earth. The two probes — Mira satellites operated by the California startup Impulse Space — zoomed within 650 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pioneering Voyager probes might only have a few years left to explore interstellar space, and that's assuming a planned, risky ...

Not quite halfway through a six-year sojourn through the Solar System, a NASA spacecraft used a close encounter with Mars last week as a dress rehearsal for its arrival at the Solar System’s largest ...

A U.S.-based aerospace company is planning to launch a spacecraft that will not be given any commands from Earth once in space. On September 21, 2026, AstroForge announced that its aptly named ...

It was a big day last Friday in Chengdu, China, where the China National Space Administration (CNSA) presented a number of highly ambitious projects as the country celebrated its 11th Space Day. Among ...

A cryptic announcement raises questions about the type of weapons and how they could be used. We talked to an expert about the consequences.

Chronicling the Seattle and Pacific Northwest startup scene. SEE MORE by Alan Boyle on Sep 24, 2026 at 6:00 am September 24, ...