NASA plans a permanent moon base, nuclear spacecraft and Mars missions as Artemis launches a new era of deep-space ...

If you've ever fancied spending up to a year away from your loved ones and living in extremely close confines with three other people, now's your chance! NASA is looking for four recruits for a ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...

Since humanity first gazed up at the night sky, we’ve been driven by an insatiable curiosity to understand what lies beyond our pale blue dot. The past six decades of space exploration have delivered ...

Approximately 250 mi. above Lake Michigan, International Space Station astronaut Don Pettit captured this long-exposure photograph of city lights streaking across Earth as a green and red aurora moved ...

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 ...

Room-temperature liquid metals could benefit deep-space exploration, enabling advances in propulsion, thermal management, soft robotics, smart spacesuits, and life support systems. (Nanowerk News) A ...

This week, America launched the first crewed deep space mission in over fifty years, and we should all be proud of the role North Alabama played in making it happen. Since the first lunar mission, the ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most important tools in modern space exploration — helping humans make sense of what those missions are finding. As telescopes grow more powerful ...