Space Exploration

EnVision will follow NASA’s DAVINCI+ and VERITAS

The space agency’s DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions could boost planetary science when they launch later this decade

Despite the best efforts of scientists eager to study Earth’s sister world, U.S. efforts to send a dedicated spacecraft to Venus languished—until NASA made a surprising announcement

With Ingenuity’s five successful flights on the Red Planet, aviation may find unexpected footing in the future of space exploration

NASA’s latest mission to the Red Planet will seek out signs of ancient life, gather samples for return to Earth and even fly a first-of-its-kind interplanetary helicopter

Finding cosmic civilizations might require a more innovative approach than listening for radio transmissions

Even a galaxy teeming with star-hopping alien civilizations should still harbor isolated, unvisited worlds—and Earth might be among them

Scientific American reports on new efforts from NASA and other federal agencies seeking to service and assemble large structures—such as life-finding telescopes—in space

After enduring a high-tension descent from orbit, the spacecraft will now begin its quest to peel back the profound mysteries of the Red Planet’s interior

Why we are probably the only intelligent life in the galaxy

"Monkey King" is first in a line of Chinese space missions focused on scientific discovery

More than 30 worlds have new names drawn from world mythology, literature and history