Space

We know there is water on the Moon, but questions remain about how it got there, where it is stored and how it moves. In a new study, scientists from China have…

NASA’s first robotic lunar rover is officially coming together. “I’m super excited…it makes me very proud of all the time and effort the team has invested to get this far,” said David…

Martian soil may have all the nutrients needed to grow rice, one of mankind’s most important foods, planetary scientist Abhilash Ramachandran reported at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference on March 13.…

A Houston company could build an oxygen pipeline on the Moon, enabling NASA to transport a substance key to making rocket fuel and bringing astronauts home. This is an obvious solution for…

NASA recently announced the discovery of a new Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star called TOI-700. This planet, called “TOI-700 e”, is a little more than 100 light-years…

New research by scientists analyzing the most energetic light in the galaxy has revealed that we may be wrong about the rate of star formation in the Milky Way. Gamma rays from…

Sending a lander to Venus poses enormous engineering problems. Admittedly, Venus’ atmosphere is so thick that a lander would settle on the surface slowly, like a stone settling in water.

A galaxy whose light traveled nearly 13.5 billion years to reach us has been confirmed as the oldest galaxy ever found. Astronomers analyzing the galaxy’s oxygen content with ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…

As space missions descend deeper into the outer solar system, the need for more compact and accurate analytical tools has become increasingly critical, particularly as exploration processes continue for extraterrestrial life and…