A pair of Mars-bound satellites are back to Kennedy Space Center a year after NASA bowed out of its chance to be the debut launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn. The satellites for the Escape and Plasma ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

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

The spacecraft will study the solar system's edge, magnetic fields in interplanetary space, and remnants of exploded stars.

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 ...

SpaceX is scheduled to launch NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission at 7:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...