NASA's space shuttle reentered orbit this fall after a 15-month retirement — and this time, it was bright blue. Outlasting the real winged spacecraft by more than a decade, the new space shuttle ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Operating in space requires that the electronic components in spacecraft must withstand a wide variety of challenges, ranging from hundreds of degrees ...

Plastic shielding could help protect astronauts from harmful radiation on long journeys through deep space, new observations from a NASA moon probe suggest. An instrument aboard NASA's Lunar ...