Winner of a presidential award Natalya Cherkashina said that her research was aimed at developing radiation shielding composites to protect cosmonauts and electronic equipment during long orbital flig ...

Griffin's upcoming debut will be the second lunar mission for Astrobotic. The company's smaller Peregrine moon lander launched in January 2024 on the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance's ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

New research shows that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic signals that travel much deeper than previously thought, ...

Mars spacecraft teamed up with an AI model to find a new impact crater on on the Martian surface, changing our understanding of the interior.

A bevy of space companies will lend a hand to NASA's moon goals under new contracts centered around the agency's upcoming ...

NASA is developing a groundbreaking spacecraft concept designed to revolutionize Mars travel. The ambitious plan involves ...

The Houston company is one of nine — including major names like Blue Origin — that received a contract in January.

“And after the mission ends, the spacecraft basically becomes space debris,” she said. For longer missions or deep space missions — like, say, colonizing Mars — companies will need to have ...

Of course, there are a lot of “ifs” in there, some of them as large as the enormous Starship rocket that will embark on the ambitious Mars mission. The 120-meter-tall rocket, which comprises ...

Elon Musk's quest to reach Mars hit another snag last night as his SpaceX Starship was destroyed amid its seventh test flight. Crowds gathered in Texas to watch the spacecraft - a new and upgraded ...