We're hurtling toward a new era of mega-rockets with enough power to send colonists to the red planet, but should we?
Heliophysics enters a pivotal year in 2025 with solar cycle activity, major missions, and a strategic research blueprint ...
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.
According to NASA, the moon travels around Earth in an elliptical orbit, or an elongated circle, with our planet closer to one side of the ellipse. Each month, the moon passes through the point ...
In April, four astronauts will venture around the moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA's path to establishing ...
New research sheds light on icy ocean worlds like Jupiter's Europa, focusing on a novel thermodynamic concept called the ...
The Moon held on to its magnetic field for most of its life — which could mean less lunar water available to future ...
The European Space Agency shows how the sun’s activity has ramped up as it careened toward "solar maximum." Data sonification brings solar flares to life through audio.
Projections suggest auroral activity could increase in 2025 as activity on the sun’s surface maintains a “solar maximum.” ...
NASA said scientists began receiving more detailed telemetry — or "housekeeping data" — from the spacecraft on New Year's Day.
An independent review team is delivering a final report to NASA leadership to determine if the agency's Mars Sample Return ...
The Parker Solar Probe broke its record by flying closer to the sun than ever before, reaching a distance of just 3.8 million ...