Sometimes there are profound questions in life that must be answered, like "What is the meaning of existence?", "Are we alone ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

NASA's DART spacecraft attempted to deflect an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. New work tracking the debris has found a few fairly large surprises.

As goes the space industry, so goes North Alabama, the home of manufacturing and integration operations for United Launch ...

A new paper from Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki from the University of Tokyo looks at “the dynamics of an origami space plane during Earth atmospheric reentry” – in other words, what happens ...

Humans have forever been using all manner of techniques to better secure the food we need to sustain our lives. The practice ...

The prospect of the Federal Reserve once again setting its short-term interest rate target at near zero levels at some point ...

In a recent contest, teams of researchers competed to see who could train an AI model to best pilot a spaceship. The results ...

The traditional Japanese paste tastes nuttier and more roasted when made in orbit, according to an experiment that could help ...

When astronauts make the long journey to Mars in the not-so-distant future, communication with mission control will be ...

A new paper analyzes the benefits of this engine—which is almost twice as efficient as regular NTR engines—and the many challenges that are keeping this engine from its planet-hopping mission.