"We are happy to confirm that we have a parachute design that can work on Mars — an ambitious system with the largest parachute ever to be flown outside Earth" ...

A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The giant swirls are collectively one of the best examples of this ...

From the ISS to the Moon, India aims big with smart, low-cost missions ...

Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive ...

Moon-Rice project develops super-dwarf, protein-rich rice varieties for space missions and extreme Earth environments.

The future of sustained space habitation depends on our ability to grow fresh food away from Earth. The revolutionary new collaborative Moon-Rice project is using cutting-edge experimental biology to ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

Owolabi Salis is a man of many parts and is evidently intent on living his life to the fullest. The New York-based lawyer, ...

GPS systems, planes and military equipment track the magnetic field and rely on accurate models of magnetic north to function ...

Europe is turning to the far north of Sweden and Norway to launch satellites from its own soil for the very first time. Race ...