For the first time in history, we now have real, high-resolution images of Neptune that go beyond artist impressions and telescope visuals. Captured by advanced space telescopes and spacecraft, these ...

Explore NASA's cancelled Europa mission and learn why Europa is a key target in the search for extraterrestrial life.

After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...

To make these lander missions happen, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory team has been working on a robot that could handle the ...

Abstract: This paper describes Trident, a proposed Discovery mission to Neptune's moon Triton, 30 AU from the Sun. Triton formed in the Kuiper Belt but was captured by Neptune into a highly-inclined ...

Engineers floated the idea of using the Mark 1 (MK1) as a mass simulator, if needed, for the first launch of Blue Origin’s ...

The earliest forays into lunar exploration were a product of the ongoing Cold War, when the U.S. and Soviet Union sent uncrewed spacecraft to orbit and land on the moon. The Soviets scored an ...

With further development, LUPIN has the potential to function like Google Maps for users in the Moon, including rovers and astronauts.

The latest triumph saw Lonis emerge victorious in the $40,000 no-limit hold’em mystery bounty event at this year’s Triton Poker Montenegro festival. He outlasted 129 entries to secure the ...

Credit: ispace A Japanese commercial spacecraft is zeroing in on its second attempt at a lunar landing, now flying laps around the moon. The company ispace entered lunar orbit more than a week ago ...

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Tennessee Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust, the Moon has once again ...

"In all, this is a decade of work." For that mission, two spacecraft, Ebb and Flow, were sent to orbit the moon for a year between 2011 and 2012. They used that data to map how the moon responds ...