NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...

The new approach called the Water-based Electric Thrusters (WET) aims to develop a method of converting water into plasma, a ...

In deep space, temperatures can range from blistering heat to freezing cold, depending on the spacecraft’s position relative to the Sun. For example, when NASA’s Voyager 1 traveled beyond the ...

This forced the space agency to evacuate the iconic laboratory — leaving the Caltech-managed mission control center for the Deep Space Network, aka NASA's communications hub for missions to Mars ...

Deep Space Network operations, normally conducted at JPL, have been moved offsite to a back-up operations center.” In a bit of good news, the DSN team maintained contact with its spacecraft ...

2025 is set to be an amazing year of space missions as many moon landings are planned and significant test launches.

A Russian plasma engine could cut Mars travel to 30 days with continuous thrust, surpassing ion thrusters. A 300 kW prototype ...

Annadurai went on to lead India’s first deep space mission, Chandrayaan-1, which made the crucial lunar water discovery on the moon – and earned him the title of India’s “Moonman”.

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

The mission marks one of the first times a private company has sent a spacecraft into deep space, or beyond the moon ... s purely platinum and is worth $1 trillion in actual material — am ...