Space Exploration

The historic space probe has sent signals to Earth, ending seven months of silence

Scientists have found ancient "impact glass" on the surface of Mars, which formed when asteroids struck, a billion or more years ago. If anything was alive at the time, biological materials could be trapped inside. Christopher Intagliata reports

The ALMA telescope array glimpses a far-distant galaxy through an Einstein ring

New research shows that Saturn's outermost ring, discovered in 2009, is far larger than previously thought

NASA's huge supersonic parachute isn't ready to land astronauts on Mars just yet

The spacecraft stopped communicating with Earth after just two days in orbit, silenced by a software glitch. It had rebooted but then went dark again on June 3 due to a battery issue

This 'cathedral' to the U.S. space race, dormant for 23 years, will be restored in time to commemorate the first moon landing's half-century anniversary

Gravity binds together three of the dwarf planet's satellites

The spacecraft will not revisit the battered, porous moon before its mission concludes in 2017

Ed White’s first foray into the vacuum of space on June 3, 1965, set the stage for future spacewalks to assemble stations and repair telescopes

The lander, a six-meter Kevlar-inflatable disk, could carry heavier loads to the Red Planet

Controversy aside, work on NASA’s next deep-space rocket continues unabated