In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instruments were taken offline in March. One especially power-hungry instrument – ...

In just 15 years' time, the European Space Agency hopes humans will live in huge 'space oases' on Mars - luxury indoor ...

A solar-powered water-lift system is now supporting cheetah cubs born this year. With June temperatures nearing 48°C, ...

The spacecraft's tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the mechanisms behind space weather that impact crucial ...

Humanity is on the verge of a new frontier—colonizing the solar system. But what’s actually stopping us? From the challenges ...

A space physicist has suggested that a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles may have wiped out the Neanderthals.

Folk will live in sustainable white domes off-Earth by 2040 and the internet will stretch across the Solar System while AI ...

To reach Earth’s closest star system, Alpha Centauri, scientists are building a laser-powered spacecraft. To pull off ...

However, NASA, with the backing of key congressional leaders, has held an iron grip on having its own heavy-lift launcher and ...

NASA's initiatives to pioneer next-generation space technologies are also hit hard in the White House's budget proposal. If ...

Several ongoing and future missions led or co-led by NASA exploring the cosmos could face serious changes if Congress ...

It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the ...