In order to maintain a presence on the moon, there’s going to be a need for energy. How do you maintain a colony of people in a place that has roughly 14 days of sunlight followed by 14 days of ...

Researchers at Purdue spent years working with NASA engineers to figure out how to grow crops on Mars and beyond. Now the data is yielding surprising results.

The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas continues to build.

NASA on Thursday launched an effort to pay companies to mine resources on the moon, announcing it would buy from them rocks, dirt and other lunar materials as the U.S. space agency seeks to spur ...

Boeing Co is submitting to an independent review of its compliance and ethics practices, according to an agreement struck with NASA and the U.S. Air Force and seen by Reuters, part of widening fallout ...

NASA confirmed that nuclear-micropowered probes (NMPs) using tritium betavoltaic power technology is possible. A new study ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

As part of World Space Week, which is highlighting the theme of living in space, we look at one scientist's dream of gigantic ...

Highly anticipated new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it made its nearest pass to the planet Mars last week have been released by the European Space Agency.

As space agencies race to set foot on the Moon, Mars, and elsewhere, a not-so-glamorous problem could be the key to success: ...

In 2022, NASA dropped a full-scale aircraft fuselage from a height of 35 feet, destroying it well beyond expectations. NASA ...

From Martian rocks that may hold traces of past life, to fragile asteroids that explode in Earth’s atmosphere, to bold ideas ...