"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" ...

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 ...

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

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

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 ...

According to the team's work, the plane's orbit would decay very quickly after deployment, and would enter Earth's atmosphere ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as an international ...

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.