Origami cranes are also an international symbol for peace, hope and healing. In 2011, when a powerful earthquake hit Japan, ...

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

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Astronomers have traced a starnge blast of radiowaves that repeats every 2 hours back to a dead star white dwarf magnetically ...

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

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 ...

The detection was made using the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT), located deep in the Mediterranean ... travel through space unseen. They have almost no mass, carry no charge, and ...