For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are playing an increasingly crucial role in onboard data processing to improve spacecraft autonomy and enhance the quality of scientific observations. While AI ...

UF engineers, backed by DARPA and NASA, are perfecting laser-forming techniques that let metal sheets fold themselves into giant solar arrays, antennas, and even space-station parts right in ...

Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.

Scientists have proposed two experimental spacecraft that could reach one of the farthest known objects in the solar system ...