New data challenges the long-held theory that all of Mars’s water escaped into space. By Robert PerkinsContent...
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The remote world has already bulked up to five times the mass of Jupiter. The above illustration...
Once biological neighbors are identified, our planet’s philosophies and religions will need to adapt. How will humankind...
It’s time for a hard look at the system for managing space traffic. A rocket from the...
By Mark Garcia More than 500,000 pieces of debris, or “space junk,” are tracked as they orbit...
The maps of the Moon that were created at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory have long since...
A fundamental decision that led to the successful lunar landings came largely as a result of one...
We’re not exactly sure what the universe was up to in the first few nano-moments into the...
Apollo 8 was the moment that humanity realized a dream conceived in our cultural imagination over two...
U.S. space exploration inspired a generation of students and innovators, but NASA’s role has diminished, and the...
The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to...
While the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing is an opportunity to celebrate a remarkable technological...
In the space beyond Earth’s atmosphere, countries are focusing on nationalist pursuits and ignoring the consequences for...
It has been 10 years since Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the commercial space age. What hurdles must...
Is there hope humanity will once again push beyond Earth? By Ryan P. Smith Few moments in...
America had completed a series of successful launches into space and achieved many firsts well before Sputnik....
Artist depiction of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. By Mopic/shutterstock.com An asteroid on a collision course with Earth is inevitable. Astronomer...
It is theoretically possible that habitable planets exist around pulsars – spinning neutron stars that emit short,...
A new approach to dating the birth of our solar system could help find other similar systems. Flickr/Dmitry...
Imagined view from Kepler-10b, a planet that orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft...
By Dr. Martin Rees / 03.14.2018 Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics University of Cambridge Soon after...
As long as clouds don’t get in the way, the view should be spectacular. NASA Goddard By Dr....
Fig 1 By Dr. Frank Wilczek / 12.11.2015 Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
NASA By Paul Gilster / 04.08.2016 The human future in the cosmos could be all but limitless,...
The Biosphere 2 complex is an earth system science research facility near Tucson, AZ. / Photo by...
Huge ice sheets discovered on Mars could mean human exploration of the planet is closer than scientists...
This artist’s concept shows the most distant supermassive black hole ever discovered. It is part of a...
Complex nature. Photo by Alan L/Flickr By Dr. Martin Rees / 12.01.2017 Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics...
Artist’s concept of interstellar asteroid 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) as it passed through the solar system after its...
In a galaxy far away, two dead stars begin a final spiral into a massive collision. The...