Radioisotope thermoelectric generators do not rely on chemical reactions like the batteries in your phone. Instead, they rely on the radioactive decay of elements to produce heat and eventually ...

NASA is shutting down instruments on the Voyager spacecraft, humanity's farthest explorers, allowing them to continue sending ...

He is a member and former Director of The National Space Society and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. Private citizens and companies may one day begin to permanently settle outer space and celestial ...

Producing high-performance titanium alloy parts -- whether for spacecraft, submarines or medical devices -- has long been a slow, resource-intensive process. Even with advanced metal 3D-printing ...

Odin, named for the father of Thor in Norse mythology, will be one of the first spacecraft developed by a private sector company to travel to deep space or beyond the moon.

"Congress has redefined what were formerly called 'unidentified flying objects' [UFOs] to first 'unidentified aerial ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space, but their mission in interstellar ...

the instrument will map 450 million galaxies and search for water molecules that may be clinging to space dust Sara Hashemi The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies ...

"Based on telemetry before the loss of signal last week and ground-based radar data collected March 2, the team believes the ...

America at large, following the moon landing, suffered a massive outer-space hangover/letdown, where it suddenly seemed as if we’d shot our wad of exploration, and we all somehow knew that ...

His company recently expanded to Colorado Springs, saying this area already has a large defense industry presence to help find solutions for outer space problems. "We're currently... about 80-90 ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured breathtaking new imagery of Lynds 483, a star-forming region located 650 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Serpens. At the heart of L483, two ...