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

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...

The next full moon, the Strawberry Moon, will light up Michigan skies in mid-June. Here's a look at what to know.

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

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However, NASA, with the backing of key congressional leaders, has held an iron grip on having its own heavy-lift launcher and ...

Plan is for spacecraft to first visit 2016 HO3, which could be a fragment of the moon, then start a seven-year journey to ...

We’ll update this article multiple times each week with the latest ... Though a Full Moon only occurs during the exact moment when Earth, Moon, and Sun form a perfect alignment, to our eyes ...

Invisible radiation leaking out of private satellites, like SpaceX's Starlink spacecraft, is disrupting radio astronomers' ...

Scientists have discovered a new bacteria species called niallia tiangongensis aboard China's Tiangong space station.

Off-world agriculture has long seemed experimental, but that could soon change thanks to a collaboration between design firm ...