Three MIT payloads will soon hitch a ride to the moon in a step toward establishing a permanent base on the lunar surface.

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An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion ...

X-37B floats in the upper portion of the picture, one of its gallium arsenide solar panels visible on the left. The Space ...

A polar bear fetching a stick and other jaw-dropping moments from this year's World Nature Photography Awards.

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A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 has found evidence of underground beaches in an area where an ancient sea is ...

Ground-penetrating radar data obtained by China's Zhurong rover has revealed buried beneath the Martian surface evidence of ...

Blue Ghost, a new lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace, is just a little over a week away from touchdown. As it sidles up to ...

Understanding Geoengineering Geoengineering encompasses a range of techniques broadly categorized into two main approaches: ...

On the barren Chajnantor plateau, ALMA observes the depths of space, yet the rising Moon reminds us of home. Its seemingly large size on the horizon is merely an optical illusion, but its true ...