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 ...

In 1961, UCLA graduate student Michael Minovitch found a smarter way to move spacecraft through space. At JPL, he studied planetary gravity on his own time. His calculations showed how a spacecraft ...

Nearly six decades after astronauts first walked on the moon, NASA says its next chapter will focus on establishing a long-term human presence on the lunar surface rather than making another symbolic ...

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 ...

Using the latest data from the Chang’e lunar exploration program and other lunar exploration efforts, Chinese scientists have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chris Williams, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot, and Jessica Meir inside the space station’s cupola waiting to observe the Orion spacecraft—with the Artemis II crew inside—as it reenters Earth’s ...