NASA, in its mission to send a craft to explore Titan, one of Saturn’s many moons, faced a dilemma. Dragonfly, the rotorcraft that will explore Titan, needed a heat shield to survive a two-hour ...

A lightweight new X-ray telescope could finally give scientists something they’ve never had before: a complete chemical map ...

Later this year, a prototype telescope is slated to land on the moon. It could usher in a new era of lunar radio astronomy.

This groundbreaking finding, derived from observations of wind patterns on seven large, hot gas exoplanets, significantly ...

The "soil" blanketing the moon's surface isn't actually soil. It's a fine, lethal, abrasive powder of shattered rock and ...

There is a chamber at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston that is, in its own way, one of the most extraordinary rooms on ...

The “soil” blanketing the moon’s surface isn’t actually soil. It’s a fine, lethal, abrasive powder of shattered rock and ...

You’re forgiven if you’ve always believed that the first U.S. flag on the moon was the pole-mounted 3-by-5-footer that ...

The start of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is days away. Forecasters are keeping a close watch on the tropics, especially the Gulf, as summer starts. The National Hurricane Center's tropical ...

ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 mission has discovered strong evidence of buried water ice near the Moon’s south pole using advanced ...

NASA previewed what the base on the moon might look like in a photo from the press conference. In trying to establish a ...

NASA has officially announced new lunar rover contracts for crews to drive, as well as uncrewed cargo landers bound for the ...