Eisenhower created the agency to organize the United States' missile and space projects and align them with the goals of the federal government. Later, DARPA expanded and began looking into other ...

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Elon Musk is actually part of the military industrial complex through inappropriate private business affairs with the ...

A DRACO ground test would need to capture plume exhaust fully to ensure no radioactive materials are released to the ...

"We're focused on geosynchronous Earth orbit, where the most valuable real estate in space," said Bernie Kelm.

An curved arrow pointing right. There are an estimated 500,000 pieces of space junk orbiting our planet. Many pose a hazard to the International Space Station, satellites, and other spacecraft.

The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day drastically cut down the travel time to Mars and ...

As the aircraft's name suggests, XS-1 looks and functions like a cross between an airplane and a space shuttle. Produced by Zach Wasser. Video courtesy of DARPA. Special thanks to Sean Kane.

Space Kinetic's core technology, a platform called the ‘long gun,’ is an electromechanical system that integrates onto a ...

The US Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST), in collaboration with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has developed a spaceflight ...

DARPA is pursuing critical breakthrough technologies to enable a dispersion of assets ... Notably outside the scope of this paper—but absolutely critical to this future vision—are space-, cyber-, and ...

APL hosted its annual Cislunar Security Conference, bringing together leaders in government, academia, industry and other ...