Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion ... starting off with prototypes on NASA's Deep Space 1 and the European Space Agency's SMART-1 in 1998 and 2003, respectively, and subsequently finding ...

According to Jackie Quinn, PRIME-1 project manager at NASA’s ... fostering a commercial lunar industry. The mission is funded by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate under the Game ...

Data from the Mars Express orbiter has been used to create a visualization of "a vast system of deep and steep valleys that ...

Technology Demonstration Satellite-1 (TDS-1) will cover the entire Earth every 12 days, providing crucial data for multiple ...

NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 from the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI | ...

An annual safety report to NASA has both praise and also underscores a number of cautionary woes, including the space ...

"Alpha Centauri is 4.3 light-years away; about 2,000 times further away from the sun than the Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached — the furthest spacecraft we've ever sent into deep space so far.

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Unlike on Earth, where the atmosphere and planetary magnetic field provide a shield from space radiation, astronauts are ...

"I look forward to watching the ongoing journey of RESILIENCE, navigating a low-energy orbit through deep space taking it at as far as 1.1 million kilometers from Earth before heading to the Moon." ...

As we move into 2025, the field of space exploration is ... is planning to launch its "Resilience" mission, which will attempt to land on the moon and deploy a mini-rover. Astrobotic also has a lunar ...