Space Exploration

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

Tis the season for science fiction fun, but could we even tell if the universe around us was filled with galactic empires and rebel forces?

From progress on deciphering the strange features of dwarf planet Ceres to NASA's plans to play with Martian sand and a heroic rescue of Japan's Venus-bound spacecraft, it's been an interesting past couple of weeks

A pair of scientific papers suggest that the ALMA observatory may have detected 2 new "planet-scale" objects associated with the outer realms of the solar system. But should we be awed or skeptical?