Hidden patterns in electric propulsion plasma beams could help ensure the success of long-term space missions.

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have calculated a new system for measuring lunar time. While not needed ...

A research team at the University of Virginia is revolutionizing the future of space travel with groundbreaking studies on ...

Space travel has always hit a wall with slow speeds and massive fuel needs. Gravitic propulsion systems offer a game-c ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...

Deep Space Station 23, NASA’s latest addition to its Deep Space Network, recently reached a major milestone with the ...