Pt. 1. The golden age, 1957-1982. The beginning -- Of landers and orbiters -- The grandest tour -- Pt. 2. Hiatus and renewal, 1983-1996. The decade of Halley -- The era of flagships -- Faster, cheaper ...

A collection of meteorites has been added to James Madison University’s Mineral Museum. The Richard F. West Meteorite Collection was unveiled on Friday and includes everything from primitive ...

"Trip to the Planets, A" is a black-and-white science film featuring imaginative depictions of space travel in a giant airship. Heavy on intertitles, the film employs animation and detailed models to ...

A pellet of plutonium 238, illuminated by the glow of its own radioactivity. NASA and other space agencies use this material in radioisotope power sources for interplanetary missions to the solar ...

HOUSTON—The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 and NASA’s Osiris-Rex missions are writing a new chapter in the exploration of Solar System bodies as they explore the rugged ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...

IMAP mission will explore our solar system's protective heliosphere and will also help us develop a better understanding of ...

HELSINKI — Researchers are examining how artificial intelligence technologies could support a planned Chinese mission to the boundaries of the solar system, according to a new paper. Artificial ...