For years, the commercial space sector has been abuzz about the prospect of satellite "super constellations" in Earth orbit.

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...

Frameworks are a critical, if underappreciated, component of any space exploration mission. They can range from the overall mission architecture, capturing scientific and technical goals, to the ...

The icy surface of Jupiter 's moon Europa appears to be constantly changing, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has ...

The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...

China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a near-Earth small asteroid and retrieve its samples for scientists. Carrying the Tianwen 2 robotic ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope in Hawaii have observed something remarkable on ...

Scientists have had a hunch that a distant moon experiences weather like Earth's, forming clouds that douse its craggy ...

A recent video created from images captured by Curiosity shows clouds tinted red and green flowing though the sky over Mars. Captured using the rover's Mastcam instrument on January 17, 2025, the ...

The findings will aid future lunar missions and navigation. A new NASA study has found that the inside of the Moon is not the same on both sides, and this could explain why the side facing Earth looks ...