PARIS — Icarus Robotics, the New York startup developing dexterous mobile robots for space missions, conducted tests...
Mimas’ largest crater is named Herschel Crater, in its discoverer’s honor. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute With 293...
If we are ever to have a permanent presence on Mars, we will have to learn to...
Astronomers have discovered the youngest exoplanet on record, and they spotted the "newborn" world hiding in old...
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The crescent Moon visits ruby-red Antares, the heart of the Scorpion, after sunset on the 17th. Can...
A Falcon 9 stands on Space Launch Complex 4E ahead of the USSF-259 mission at Vandenberg Space...
Thanks to the Mariner 10, MESSENGER, and BepiColombo missions, scientists have learned a great deal about Mercury,...
Binary stars are born in the same cloud of molecular gas, and should share the same chemical...
Space weather caused a 16-minute train delay in 1848: ‘Our research has a hint of a detective story’
Detective work by a team of space-weather experts has discovered the truth about a historical event that...
The U.S. military must be ready to engage the enemy farther from home than ever before, according...
The winners of the first-ever Neil Armstrong Space Prize just got their hardware.Those awardees — the people...
Today I’ll be telling you about 10 of my favorite autumn deep-sky objects, with suggestions for viewing...
Nature doesn’t conform to our definitions of things. Brown dwarfs are a prime example of this. They’re...
As the newest heavy hitter in orbital observatories continues the journey to its final destination, NASA has...
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SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS) stands tall on the lunar surface in this artist’s rendering. HLS...
The formation of our solar system was a complex process, but there are two things we know...
When stars the size of our sun die, they leave behind powerful stellar remnants called white dwarfs...
On Sept. 16, 1949, the U.S. launched a V-2 rocket with a monkey named Albert III on...