When Comet Leonard, a mass of space dust, rock and ice about a half-mile (1 kilometer) wide, makes its closest...
Aerospace engineers at MIT are testing a new concept for a hovering rover that levitates by harnessing the moon’s natural...
It’s hard to imagine a more inhospitable world than our closest planetary neighbor. With an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide,...
The Hubble Space Telescope’s successor is a time-traveling wonder capable of peering back to within a hair’s breadth of the...
Launching in August 2022 and arriving at the asteroid belt in 2026, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will orbit a world we...
In science fiction stories about contact with extraterrestrial civilisations, there is a problem: What kind of propulsion system could make...
A new study has found that the minerology of the rocks that a meteorite hits, rather than the size of...
A clay mineral known as smectite could hold a substantial portion of the water missing from Mars, according to new...
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has obtained the deepest and sharpest images to date of...
The world’s first 3D simulation simultaneously considering dust motion and growth in a disk around a young star has shown...
Astronomers have a new way of detecting active black holes in the Universe and measuring how much matter they are...
Set to launch on Dec. 22, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the largest space observatory in history, and it...
