Space is hard, but it's also big -- and probably big enough to hold three competing companies offering space tug services.

SpaceX sent a space tug aloft along with another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Sunday night (Sept. 4) — and landed a rocket on a ship at sea as well.

NASA is looking to develop a space tug to help deorbit the International Space Station in coming years, with the White House budget request allocating $180 million for the spacecraft.

Impulse Space, a space technology startup developing orbital transfer vehicles commonly known as "space tugs," has raised $300 million in a late-stage funding round led by Linse Capital, bringing ...

Startups Launcher, Magdrive and Epic Aerospace are poised to go to orbit for the first time aboard SpaceX's Transporter-6 mission.

NASA recently kicked off its search for design proposals for $1 billion space-tug. The planned spacecraft will help take the aging International Space Station out of orbit years from now.

Meet Helios, a new class of space tug with some real muscle "Just give us a sip. We'll take our 14 tons and we'll be glad to pay for it." ...

NASA's ISS deorbit plan will rely on a space tug that will help bring the station back down to Earth safely.

The space station faces a dramatic end when it ceases operations in about six years from now, and SpaceX will help to make it happen.

NASA is seeking help to build a space tug that will be deployed to safely deorbit the International Space Station at the end of its life in 2031.

Blue Origin also seeks to develop a space tug as part of its ESPA ring, allowing ride-along satellites to reach different orbits than the rocket's primary payload.

Iran unveiled the craft in 2017. A space tug can transfer a satellite from one orbit to another. Iran has long pursued a space program saying it is aimed at peaceful purposes.