New spacecraft techniques propose using CubeSats, laser rangefinding, and precise Doppler measurements to determine the mass ...

China's reusable Shenlong space plane launched on its fourth space mission earlier this month. What is it doing in Earth ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after decades of space probes, meteorite analysis, radio telescopes, and UFO ...

A small space telescope with the eyes of a giant will spend the next year studying the planets around distant stars, and the University of Arizona will serve as mission control. The refrigerator-sized ...

The JUICE spacecraft captured its first detailed glimpse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing a glowing coma and ...

Why did a $72 million mission to study water on the moon fail so soon after launch? A new NASA report has the answer.

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an internal ocean? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and ...

Learn about the latest image of comet 3I/ATLAS, captured by a European Space Agency spacecraft that's on its way to Jupiter.

Voyager 1 is about to cross a threshold that sounds almost mythical: within about a year, the spacecraft will be a full light-day from Earth, so far away that its radio messages will take roughly 24 ...

A consequential debate that has been simmering behind closed doors at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, must soon come to a head. It concerns the selection of the next spacecraft the agency will ...

Each year, SpaceNews selects the people, programs and technologies that have most influenced the direction of the space industry in the past year. Started in 2017, our annual celebration recognizes ...