What actually happens to a spacecraft during its fiery last moments? That's the key question for the European Space Agency's Draco mission, planned for 2027.

A model developed by Luminary Cloud and Northrop Grumman can predict spacecraft thruster performance in seconds versus hours for traditional computational methods. Credit: Northrop Grumman Luminary ...

Nearly half a century after it left Earth, a battered spacecraft built with 1970s electronics is closing in on a frontier no human machine has ever crossed. The probe is not only venturing deeper into ...

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...