An abridged version of this article first appeared in the February 2026 issue of SpaceNews Magazine.

Daria Pidhorodetska, a NASA scientist, tells PEOPLE about her unlikely journey to the space agency after taking a college ...

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The Space Force offers guardians multiple education pathways, from automatic enrollment in the Community College of the Air ...

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Rocket Lab has won an $816 million contract — its largest to date — with the U.S. Space Development Agency as the company continues to diversify beyond its “rocket company” label. The company said ...

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire nominated twice to lead the agency, may draw some lessons from the tenure of another NASA leader in the 1990s. By Kenneth Chang After 11 months of tumult and downsizing ...

The Space Force is focusing on domain awareness for the first CASR mission area. Credit: ASBE/Getty Images The U.S. Space Force has set domain awareness as its initial—and for now, sole—mission area ...