The next time you complain about having to put on a clean shirt for a video call, consider the challenges others…

On June 22, NASA will send an atomic clock the size of a football (though much heavier) to space onboard a SpaceX…

NASA’s InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) probe successfully…

Have you seen this photo, supposedly showing the last image captured by the Cassini space probe before it crashed…

If we don’t pump the brakes on climate change, all of Greenland could eventually melt, adding about 24 feet to…

The Odyssey orbiter has been hovering above Mars, photographing its surface and taking data for 16 years now. There’s…

Yesterday morning, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft slammed into the day side of Saturn, the brief flash of its…

Oh Florence, we really needed you this month. There’s a petulant species of brainy monkeys apes that just can’t seem…

Back in June, after installing a new lithium-ion battery into its ape-inspired RoboSimian and plugging it into…

The Dawn spacecraft has been hard at work orbiting Ceres, and over the last week, it’s sent back some stunning…

It’s not often you see the United States Geological Survey and Jet Propulsion Laboratories get into a smackdown over…

We’ve reached the point of no return.

Right now, here’s how close we are to the events of Andy Weir’s novel The Martian actually happening: Not very. NASA…

In 2004, NASA landed its Opportunity rover on Mars. Initially intended to run for 90 days, it’s now spent 11 years…

Taking a spacecraft to the surface of an alien planet is hard enough, but it can be even more difficult to reach the…

During Microsoft's demo of its fascinating holographic headset HoloLens today, the company barely mentioned the…

The Cassini Orbiter captures a different view of Saturn, in which the planet and its rings seem to vanish into…

11 trillion. 11,000,000,000,000. However, you wrap your brain around it, that number is hard to fathom. But that's…

Europa, Jupiter's sixth-closest moon, has long been a source of fascination and wonder for astronomers. Not only…

Put a man on the Moon? Sure. Establish a continuously orbiting zero-gravity laboratory? Easy. Parachute a rover onto…