Naicker Scientific's SonoChem device, using microwaves and ultrasound, won the Aqualunar challenge by purifying water from ...

This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.

On March 29, the Moon will wedge itself between the Sun and Earth, blocking only a part of the star from our view.

In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...

As agricultural research continues to become more entwined with technology, smart farming—a phrase that encompasses research ...

A partial solar eclipse will happen this weekend (Saturday, March 29) and will be visible in parts of the United States, ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer launched on March 14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission, ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Fram2, the third private spaceflight purchased from SpaceX, is scheduled to launch no earlier than March 31st from Kennedy ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...