Les Johnson, a leading expert on solar sails for NASA, breaks down the science, and the science fiction of solar sails in ...

Geminid meteors will compete with the full moon, but they could light up December skies. Here's a look at what to know.

European smallsat developer Open Cosmos has signed a contract with ESA for a trio of cubesats to study the Earth’s magnetic field and ionosphere.

New modeling research reveals that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is particularly vulnerable to ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station may one day be able to enjoy some good home cooking roughly 250 miles away ...

The bacteria could be grown in space, and lend their photosynthesizing talents to supplying power to the hundreds of ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building will safely pass Earth on Dec. 4, 2024. It's classed as a “potentially ...

SpaceX partners with the National Reconnaissance Office to deploy secretive satellites in late-night launch from California.

To create LignoSat, researchers used honoki, a type of magnolia tree native to Japan and normally used to make sword covers.

Founder and chairman of Amazon, founder of Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is the third richest ...

Astronomy is a lovely undertaking by day or by night, but the sky has delights to offer in the between times as well. When ...

The spacecraft—humanity's most distant probe—managed to resumed contact by switching to a secondary radio not used since 1981 ...