The mission's goal is to find water on the Moon, which could open the door for a sustained human presence there.

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas ...

The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. The discovery represents ...

Planetary exploration has long been at the forefront of scientific endeavour, with mobile robotics and terramechanics playing pivotal roles in the design and operation of exploration vehicles. Mobile ...

Impact history should be considered a key factor in the search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets. Southwest Research ...

Space exploration is about to enter a new era later this year, as American space agency NASA is getting ready to launch perhaps its most ambitious alien-life-hunting mission ever. Centered around a ...

Homer Newell and the Origins of Planetary Science in the United States -- The Survival Crisis of the US Solar System Exploration Program in the 1980s -- Faster, Better, Cheaper: A Sociotechnical ...

Growing up in the foothills of the Himalayas, Meenakshi Wadhwa always has had a fascination with nature. That soon expanded into a curiosity about what’s beyond our world and how different scientific ...

Pt. 1. The golden age, 1957-1982. The beginning -- Of landers and orbiters -- The grandest tour -- Pt. 2. Hiatus and renewal, 1983-1996. The decade of Halley -- The era of flagships -- Faster, cheaper ...