Space Exploration

Long considered trivial, the effects of rocket launches and reentering space debris on global warming and ozone loss could soon become too large to ignore

The announcement comes as NASA and Roscosmos are laying plans to transition to other orbital habitats

Astronomers and the public alike are delighting in the glittering depths of the universe revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope

The suits, supplied by Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace, will be used in NASA’s upcoming Artemis lunar missions and will protect space travellers from micrometeoroids, moon dust and even vomit

The pioneering probes are still running after nearly 45 years in space, but they will soon lose some of their instruments

The spacecraft will arrive in lunar orbit in mid-November to help prepare for a future moon-orbiting outpost

Planetary scientists are eager to bring Red Planet rocks, soil and even air to Earth, but critics fear the risk of contaminating our world’s biosphere 

The latest data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission is sparking a frenzy of exciting new astrophysics research

Rolling up an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater, the rover starts crucial rock sampling.

SpaceX and other companies are still struggling to make their satellites darker in the night sky

NASA’s three-and-a-half-year mission to collect seismic data from Mars is running out of juice