Using data collected by the spacecraft’s LEISA spectral imager, researchers are uncovering the true nature of Nix’s surface coarse, pure water ice that behaves like rock due to the extreme cold of ...

Radioisotope thermoelectric generators can turn heat into electricity using a principle called the Seebeck effect, discovered ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) formation and evolution? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...

Future missions to Venus could also supply additional data on the density and temperature of the planet's crust, which could ...

Chun Wang, a Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur, paid an undisclosed amount for the mission. Some satellites are already in polar orbit, and researchers called it a routine flight.

After ten years of quiet research, Pulsar Fusion has unveiled a nuclear fusion-powered rocket called the Sunbird. This spacecraft isn’t just another science fiction concept—it’s being designed to fly ...

Why was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet? One might think that it’s purely a matter of size. Mercury, the smallest of the ...