After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock and soil on the Martian surface. Experts are furious ...

Jeff Bezos got some good news in April. His Blue Origin rocket company scored a $2.4 billion contract from the US Space Force ...

It wouldn't be the first time, either. Back in 1978, a Soviet satellite spread radioactive debris across Canada's Far North ...

But the Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviets could attempt to ...

Researchers say our understanding of Earth’s largest biome is based on a tiny, unrepresentative sample dominated by just a ...

Wave-like soil patterns on the Martian surface match those found in Earth's cold, mountain regions, which could help ...

NASA is considering launching rockets to Mars next year, a major shift in priorities that could boost the fortunes of Elon ...

As an aerospace engineering professor, I study how drag affects the movement of spacecraft in orbit. Aerobraking, as the name suggests, is a type of maneuver that uses the thin air in space to apply a ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

Trump’s proposal cuts SpaceX competitors out of the NASA budget and could add billions to the company’s defense contracts.

"It's pretty incredible to think that some of the heavy elements all around us, like the precious metals in our phones and ...

After more than five decades silently orbiting our planet, a relic of the Cold War space race is making a dramatic and fiery ...