In January, 100 on-site contractors at JPL were let go after NASA instructed the lab to reduce spending in anticipation of a ...

Data from China's Zhurong rover has revealed what appears to be an ancient shoreline streaking through Mars' northern ...

Any future efforts humanity wants to make to populate the Universe outside our home planet may have a pretty significant ...

Samantha Harvey wins literary award for Orbital, her novel about six astronauts ‘trapped in a tin can’ as they orbit Earth ...

a dense slap of plasma from the Sun had reached out and "squashed" the planet’s magnetospheres in a rare space weather event.

It takes 90 minutes for the International Space Station to orbit the Earth. That journey happens 16 times in Orbital, which ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...

Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ – about a single day in space – has scooped this year’s prize, but Martin Chilton is sceptical ...

The answer it seems is Mars. When Musk was setting up SpaceX back in 2001, he told the founding team his dream was to ‘send ...

The firm's video, originally published in 2017, depicts a near-future where a swarm of people board a boat in the Hudson ...