The new series, Mars, mixes documentary and speculation to tell the parallel stories of fictional future explorers and the pioneers of today.
This artist's rendering shows what the view might look like from one of the three planets orbiting an ultracool, reddish dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth.
NASA’s Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER) was inspired by an origami design. This little robot could be used as a scout for larger rovers, going places that would be risky or hard to reach.
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When the agency put out its latest application call, it specified that the lucky few might fly in Orion, a deep-space vessel meant to make the Journey to Mars- That trip—around years—will require personal and interpersonal zen
Boeing unveiled its new spacesuit, which will be worn during the launch of the Starliner in
A year and a half ago, Pluto was a pixellated blur. The New Horizons mission has revealed it as the geologically active center of a dwarf planet system.
Asteroid mining is what it sounds like: going to the solar system’s hard bodies, extracting valuable resources, and using them to make something new. In Luxembourg began taking steps toward dominating the asteroid mining industry.
August The International Astronomical Union voted to demote Pluto to dwarf planet status.
We talked to Rubins about the experiments she conducted on board the ISS, her very first spacewalks, and what it feels like to crash-land on Earth after months in microgravity.
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Stephen Hawking warns human race is doomed if we do not colonise the moon and Mars
One of the first images from the Mars Camera, CaSSIS, on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. The image shows a km sized crater (left center) on the rim of a much larger crater near the Mars equator.
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) will launch Thursday, Nov. for a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
A twenty year old law that lets astronauts vote in space might need to be tweaked if Musk's Mars settlement becomes reality.
