What new technologies or methods can be developed for more efficient in-situ planetary subsurface analyses? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ...

A Soviet spacecraft is expected to come hurtling back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos ...

As an aerospace engineering professor, I study how drag affects the movement of spacecraft in orbit. Aerobraking, as the name suggests, is a type of maneuver that uses the thin air in space to apply a ...

Elon Musk reveals the chilling reason behind his urgent push to colonize Mars. With Earth’s future uncertain, Mars may be ...

Observers say proposed cuts to science and other programs undermine increased funding for human space exploration efforts.

Trump’s proposal cuts SpaceX competitors out of the NASA budget and could add billions to the company’s defense contracts.

While the focus of NASA has been on creating a coordinated lunar time zone, the bill pushes for NASA to consider "scalability ...

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, warns that the expanding sun will eventually destroy all life on Earth. He advocates for ...

Mars may be dry, dusty, and far from hospitable today, but new research suggests it once shared more in common with Earth ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out the evening of May 5 to see Mars close to the ...

When Elon Musk’s engineers bundled a batch of prototype satellites into a rocket’s nose cone six years ago, there were fewer ...

European researchers have demonstrated that a species of lichen can survive the extreme conditions of the Red Planet.