NASA's futuristic solar sail technology prototype is getting ready to launch to space this year. Like a sail on the ocean ...

When it comes to space exploration, “I would think that this next [Trump] Administration is going to be a continuation of the ...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) will be visible from the ground. Find out when you can see it on the NASA ...

Astrogram banner TIME Recognizes the Advanced Composite Solar Sail SystemIn October, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System ...

The plasma magnet drive with dynamic soaring is a system that could be plausibly scaled for human crewed missions up to 2-3% ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

Liftoff of the mission, which was for a "confidential commercial customer," took place at 5:56 a.m. ET on Tuesday (Nov. 5).

As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for ...

Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...

In a buzzing corner of campus, a group of students is pushing the limits of student-led space innovation. The newly ...

Instruments from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recorded the passage of comet C/2023 A3, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it moved close to the sun. The observation by the LASCO telescope revealed a ...