For many, space travel is unrealistic – spaceships are expensive, and interplanetary exploration doesn’t fit in with a 9-to-5 schedule. But soon, Durangoans dreaming of voyaging through the solar ...

John Casani spent more than half a century turning speculative ideas about distant worlds into working spacecraft that could survive the trip. His quiet influence at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

UN planetary defenses target the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS in a massive drill. Stunning amateur images of the alleged ...

Harvard's Avi Loeb claims object 3I/ATLAS is an alien mothership deploying probes to Jupiter, citing its unnatural trajectory and anomalous jet structures that defy standard physics.

Satellite breakups and anti-satellite tests have created an alarming amount of debris, a crisis now exacerbated by the rapid expansion of commercial constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink. The ...

Solar sailing has moved from science fiction concept to working hardware, and now a new generation of entrepreneurs wants to ...

NASA launches TRACERS satellites to reveal how solar energy penetrates Earth's magnetic shield and triggers space storms.

Google's Project Suncatcher is a proposal to launch an 81-satellite constellation into low Earth orbit. But it must contend ...

BARNOLDSWICK'S community library is celebrating after learning it is a winner in a national competition. The library, in Fern ...

Bennu is a primitive rock. It has remained mostly unchanged since the birth of our solar system around 4.6 billion years ago. On September 24, 2023, dust and mineral samples were hauled to Earth by ...

A subset of AI called reinforcement learning is helping scientists improve nuclear fuel technology, which they could use to ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb explains why interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is unlikely to spell doomsday for Earth, even as he urges NASA to hunt for mini‑probes and other potential technological ...