Modern space exploration is driven as much by processors as it is by rockets. And it remains the ultimate test of our collective ingenuity.

As astronauts prepare to circle the moon this week, a Houston building intended to recreate the lunar surface hit a big construction milestone. In late March, Houston-based Vaughn Construction said

The space agency is targeting Wednesday, April 1, to launch a crew of four astronauts on a potentially record-breaking journey around the moon and back The U.S. space agency’s Skyfall project calls for sending robotic helicopters to Mars on a nuclear-powered spacecraft before the end of Donald Trump’s presidency

Purdue University is expanding the scientific footprint of 2027’s all-Boilermaker suborbital flight mission with the addition of onboard autonomous experiments in quantum technology

Artemis II will test NASA’s crew capabilities in deep space and gather more information that could ultimately help send astronauts to Mars.

François Picard is joined from Toulouse by Thomas Pesquet, a European Space Agency astronaut, to discuss the Artemis II mission. Drawing on his experience in orbit, Pesquet says Artemis II should be seen not only as a technological milestone,

Students and space fans packed the UTA planetarium to watch Artemis II lift off, calling the moment surreal, historic and inspiring for the next generation of engineers.

Omega’s Speedmaster has long been Nasa’s go-to, but other space programmes are exploring partnerships with the likes of IWC Schaffhausen, Fortis and Barrelhand.

Fifty-eight years after its release, Stanley Kubrick ’s 2001: A Space Odyssey keeps surfacing in conversations about space exploration and the boundaries of human technology. That staying power has less to do with nostalgia and more to do with how much the 1968 film actually got right — and where it overshot.