Space Exploration

To propel itself higher than any known engineered jumper or animal can, it had to ignore the limits of biology

Russia will move forward with lunar exploration without its European partners

An influential panel’s recommendation makes the ice giant a likely destination for a flagship space mission

A high-speed fireball that struck Earth in 2014 looked to be interstellar in origin, but verifying this extraordinary claim required extraordinary cooperation from secretive defense programs

Scientists are beginning to dream of how a new generation of super-heavy-lift rockets might enable revolutionary space telescopes and bigger, bolder interplanetary missions

Axiom Space’s visit to the International Space Station is a milestone for commercial human spaceflight

An updated communication could be beamed out for space alien listeners in hopes of making first contact

The aircraft’s sorties are helping NASA’s Perseverance rover scout a path into an ancient Martian river delta

More than 100 employees at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center were surprised when a test project allowing them to add their pronouns to their agency identifiers was abruptly canceled

Interplanetary voyages are among several space science collaborations delayed or doomed by the ongoing conflict

NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle will attempt a wildly unconventional liftoff to bring Red Planet samples back to Earth

The Rosalind Franklin rover was set to embark for Mars later this year, but the deteriorating relationship between Europe and Russia now makes that very unlikely