Hidden patterns in electric propulsion plasma beams could help ensure the success of long-term space missions.
New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...
Overturning decades of assumptions about how Charon formed, researchers have revealed an entirely new form of cosmic collision.
Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have calculated a new system for measuring lunar time. While not needed ...
The love story between Pluto and Charon may have started with a kiss. A new study suggests the dwarf planet and its scarcely smaller moon likely came together in a collision that saw them conjoined ...
Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe could solve the mysteries of the solar wind and test Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking milestone by capturing the first-ever image an astrosphere around a star ...
The hunt for life on Mars is driven by more than curiosity – it seeks to understand humanity's place in the universe.
A research team at the University of Virginia is revolutionizing the future of space travel with groundbreaking studies on ...
The Parker Solar Probe, partly designed by students and researchers in Colorado, survived its closest encounter with our sun, ...
On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe came within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface while moving at 430,000 miles per ...