Russia has quietly taken a bold step toward solving one of spaceflight’s oldest problems by patenting a space station design that could generate its own gravity-like pull. The concept, which arrives ...

Russia and Kazakhstan have delayed the debut of their joint Baiterek space project, pushing back the Russian Soyuz-5 rocket launch. Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, said it will announce a new launch ...

A Soyuz rocket launches from Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian far east with a cargo including an Iranian telecommunications satellite. — Handout A Russian rocket put an Iranian communications ...

NASA announces nuclear rocket demo. NASA’s announcement Tuesday that it will “pause” work on a lunar space station and focus on building a surface base on the Moon was no big surprise to anyone paying ...

Any knowledge as why this isn’t using Vostochny as launch pad? I can understand Baikonur for launches to the ISS but this isn’t intended for that and is no more a Soyuz family rocket than any other ...

Being more efficient and more powerful than chemical rockets, plasma engines are seen as the future of human spaceflight. While NASA-backed plasma rocket projects aim for travel times to Mars be just ...