A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to ...

A team of researchers has outlined how a new "direct fusion drive" propulsion system could allow us to reach Sedna this ...

NASA was to supply some critical technologies for the mission, which Europe may not be able to readily replace.

NASA/Keegan Barber You wrote about another mission ... So we really need to get serious about regular sample returns from across the solar system. There’s Mars, Venus, comets, and of course lunar ...

Meanwhile, Venus and Saturn — both beaming in the morning sky — welcome Jupiter into the fold. The gas giant makes its first appearance at mid-month in Gemini, low in the northeast about an hour ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, ...

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, an energetic tinkerer and photographer, used his off-duty time on the International Space Station ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) ("Rocket Lab" or "the Company"), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today successfully launched its 68th Electron rocket to deploy a single ...

The brilliant flash, which was accompanied by a sonic boom that many mistook for an earthquake, resulted in hundreds of calls ...

The fireball is presumed to be from a meteor fragmenting in the sky, according to meteorologists and other experts.