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 ...

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.

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

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

World-renowned Greek astrophysicist Stamatios Krimigis says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.

A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky ...

the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked at the orbiting complex at 12:04 a.m. ET, while the station was roughly 260 miles over the Atlantic Ocean. At 1:35 a.m. ET, the hatch opened, and the new crew ...

The Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers and the New Horizons spacecraft that visited Pluto in 2015 have all used RTGs. New ...

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...