NASA’s 230-foot antenna, a crucial component of the Deep Space Network at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, ...

Americium is one of the lesser-known synthetic elements, first created in 1944 during the Manhattan Project. The isotope of interest for space is americium-241. Its half-life is a staggering 432 years ...

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That's the future that NASA's ESCAPADE ...

For low Earth orbit satellites, the delay is measured in milliseconds. For lunar missions, it stretches into seconds and, for Mars, into minutes. This latency cannot be eliminated, but it can be ...

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket has lifted off from Cape Canaveral. This marks the rocket's second flight and a ...

Anyone would say that hitting a moving object 130,000 km from Earth with a laser beam would be impossible. However, in April ...

This screenshot from CCTV (China Central Television) shows China’s first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, in an image taken by the camera on the Chang’e 3 moon lander, Dec. 15, 2013. China does not ...

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 ...

As engineers, we need to avoid getting stuck in the same old mindsets and attempting to solve problems in the same way over and over. Sometimes we need to toss out the old way of doing things and take ...

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 ...

China sees outer space and the polar regions as ‘strategic new frontiers’ vital to its future security – and is investing ...