Space Exploration

The blockbuster film’s futuristic vision of interplanetary exploration could soon be out of date

Once thought of as a lush alien world teeming with life and later dismissed as an arid, desolate orb, the Red Planet’s salty, liquid water just might aid in the search for extraterrestrial life

Proposals include a hunt for near-Earth objects, a dive into Venus’s atmosphere and a voyage the metallic core of a protoplanet

Space agency pulls support for Sentinel mission as decision on rival nears

A new study of fragments from the Chelyabinsk meteor reveal that it went through at least eight impact events spread across the last 4.5 billion years before it ended up impacting Earth

ASTROSAT aims to study star-birth regions and high-energy processes, including binary star systems of neutron stars and black holes

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found evidence that flowing water causes suspicious dark streaks on the Red Planet

The risk of microbial contamination could prevent humans and even robots from visiting the most promising parts of the Red Planet

Intriguing ridges add to dwarf planet's geologic mysteries

In an off-the-cuff remark to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the former National Security Agency contractor suggested E.T. might send encrypted messages that humans mistake for noise

The Earth’s shadow will darken the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in addition to the moon

In "To Scale: The Solar System" filmmakers Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, along with a few of their friends, build a size-accurate model of our cosmic backyard in Nevada's Black Rock Desert