Space Exploration

The platform could aid climate science, space junk cleanup and planetary exploration

The crew will spend the next few days in space before returning to Earth in the fully autonomous Dragon module

The three-day orbital voyage of the all-civilian crew will be a historic milestone for human spaceflight

A proposal plans to study how to build a giant spacecraft

Economic inequality, an indulgent trip to space and an ongoing legal battle with NASA are putting the space company in the hot seat

After an alarming failure, the rover is set to continue its mission to retrieve specimens for eventual return to Earth

We need to avoid the mistakes European countries made during the age of colonization

Seeking to collect its inaugural core sample, the mission hopes to begin what could be humanity’s boldest search for extraterrestrial life

Mycologist Paul Stamets discusses the potential extraterrestrial uses of fungi, including terraforming planets, building human habitats—and providing psilocybin therapy to astronauts

China’s meteoric rise in space science and exploration—along with its new partnership with Russia—is spurring U.S. experts to reconsider a long-standing prohibition on bilateral collaborations

The spaceborne studies will cover diverse topics, from dark matter and gravitational waves to the growth of cancer and pathogenic bacteria

The NASA mission used seismic waves from marsquakes to perform a core-to-crust survey of the planet’s subsurface