With the SpaceX IPO and success of the Artemis mission, long-distance space travel seems within reach. Researchers are working on solutions to feed astronauts in space.

The left panel shows the solar system and Earth. The upper right panel presents the layered structure of the Earth, with arrows showing the coupling between mantle convection and tectonic plate motion ...

Room-temperature liquid metals could benefit deep-space exploration, enabling advances in propulsion, thermal management, soft robotics, smart spacesuits, and life support systems. (Nanowerk News) A ...

Approximately 250 mi. above Lake Michigan, International Space Station astronaut Don Pettit captured this long-exposure photograph of city lights streaking across Earth as a green and red aurora moved ...

NASA is recruiting volunteers for a yearlong Moon and Mars simulation at Johnson Space Center to test long-duration missions.

Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has ...

This week, America launched the first crewed deep space mission in over fifty years, and we should all be proud of the role North Alabama played in making it happen. Since the first lunar mission, the ...

Space is crucial for national strength, global influence, and future industrial development. During the Cold War, space primarily symbolized technological skill and ideological status. Today, it ...

Titan’s resources could make Saturn’s largest moon an outpost for deep space exploration. It has weather, clouds, rain, lakes ...

Future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond may no longer need to carry every drop of propellant from Earth. NASA has successfully tested an advanced cryocoupler, a specialized connection system ...