Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) will flight test novel ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

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

A team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) compared the early impact histories of Venus and Earth, discovering that Venus experienced higher-energy impacts, resulting in an overheated core.

It's the reliable celestial companion that's stuck around for 4.5 billion years. But the moon is slowly drifting away from ...

The world is entering its second age of exploration, this one in outer space. But there’s one big question: Will America get left behind? In the 21st century, America has seen enormous technological ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

The idea was that high-powered lasers would propel tiny probes to 20 percent of the speed of light, impelling them with ...

The only humans yet to set foot on the Moon are American astronauts in the series of six Apollo landings that ended 53 years ago. But last January, President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address ...

In 2016 billionaire Yuri Milner hosted a press conference at One World Observatory, the atrium topping the slick skyscraper ...