US technology company L3Harris Technologies announced it has finalised the design of a next-generation nuclear-based power ...
How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...
In a new study, researchers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed human deep space communications and found that human transmissions are frequently directed toward our own ...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will use Mars’ gravity on May 15 to gain speed and adjust its path toward the mysterious metal rich ...
Researchers have found all five of the essential bases that make up DNA and RNA in samples taken from the asteroid Ryugu. This discovery, published inNature Astronomy on March 16, 2026, challenges the ...
In April, scientists captured global attention by announcing they’d found a molecule in a faraway planet’s atmosphere that could signal life there. But a new analysis by University of Chicago ...
"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfolio, will help to ensure the US does not cede leadership in deep space to other nations, such as China ...