The seismic signature of a fireball meteoroid event can be used to tell whether the fireball fragmented or remained intact as ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has reached a significant milestone in its ambitious ExoMars mission. The parachute system, ...

The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for a safe touchdown on Earth. A stratospheric helium balloon lifted a dummy ...

The thunder of a solid rocket booster hurtling a scientific payload to the edge of space shook the sides of buildings on White Sands Missile Range Friday. The sounding rocket carried the first space t ...

In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...

Thanks to its airplane-shaped folding, the paper plane is statically stable in the vacuum-like upper reaches of space. It ...

This is due to the relative positions of Mars, Earth, and the Sun, which create periods where radio signals cannot penetrate the Martian atmosphere in a way that would allow accurate measurements.

Warmer air can suck more moisture in dry regions and dump more rain in wet regions. New research reveals that the atmosphere’s drying capacity is outpacing increases to rainfall. (CREDIT ...

Earth’s atmosphere now has more carbon dioxide in it than it has in millions — and possibly tens of millions — of years, according to data released Thursday by the National Oceanic and ...

Researchers have provided some new insights about the powerful geomagnetic storm that flared up last Mother's Day, after a big solar storm hit Earth.