Space Exploration

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

Although the space-junk strike on March 4 will probably be harmless, such events may soon become more common—and dangerous

Science in meter and verse

From brave exploration to just another playground for the 0.0000001 percent

Surprising supply chain breakdowns

Life onboard the ISS goes on in the wake of Russia’s attack against Ukraine, even as the space project faces an uncertain future

In the next five years, the nation hopes to launch a robotic craft to an asteroid, two lunar missions and an orbital observatory