It will not only help future lunar settlers be self-sufficient but will help provide raw materials for space-based manufacturing facilities.

Experts speculate a new Phobos mission could launch by 2030, leveraging advancements in propulsion and AI for safer trajectories.

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Before we get to Mars, we're going to have to practice. And develop radical leaps in technology, but also practice. A Mars ...

Footage shows the 13th mission of Artemis 1, where the Orion spacecraft captures Earth slipping behind the moon. The footage and has been time-lapsed and looped here. Credit: NASA | edited by Steve Sp ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Human is a five-part Nova series, produced by the BBC, that takes a look at the origins and survival of the human race. The host is paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, and she travels to various ...

NASA has selected Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen as the crew for the Artemis 2 mission. They are scheduled to launch no ...

To answer a question or ask a new one, email [email protected] Between 50,000 and 100,000 tonnes of light gases such ...