For decades, humanity’s relationship with the Moon has been a series of brief visits — quick trips to leave footprints, snap photos, and head back home. But following the groundbreaking success of the ...

How do you maintain spacecraft 22,000 miles away? DARPA wants to find out with the first launch of the dexterous, deep-space ...

NASA is testing a next-generation space computer chip that could give spacecraft the ability to operate far more ...

On a clear night in Southern California in late 2024, a handful of photons arrived at the 200-inch mirror of Palomar ...

The left panel shows the solar system and Earth. The upper right panel presents the layered structure of the Earth, with arrows showing the coupling between mantle convection and tectonic plate motion ...

NASA's Voyager 1 was launched almost 49 years ago and is still actively travelling through deep space, currently over 15 billion miles away from Earth.

SANTA CRUZ — A selection of celestial photographs will be on the display in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s atrium starting Thursday. The gallery is a collaboration between the museum and ...

I’ve been reading SpaceX’s pre-IPO disclosures hunting for the buried sentence others skip. There’s a passage in the risk ...

A new Chinese research institute is exploring the impact on cognition of voyages into outer space and the deep ocean, and is also seeking global researchers to join its ranks. Extended space flight ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the future of astronautics and space technologies. That visibility naturally invites a follow-on question: what comes next ...