Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has achieved the first successful laser ranging experiment performed during an asteroid flyby, ...

On September 3, the 2026 Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu) International Conference opened in Hefei. Themed 'Sustainable Deep Space Exploration: Opportunities and Challenges,' the conference brings ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...

China has officially launched a scientific program to construct a satellite constellation in the Earth-moon space in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

First flight planned for the first quarter of 2027Sept 9 (TV BRICS/GNA) – China has successfully completed a series of propulsion system tests for the upper stage of the Lixun-1, officially entering ...

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 ...

Next-generation rockets are changing space exploration by making launch vehicles more reusable, powerful, and capable of supporting deep space missions. Modern rocket technology is no longer focused ...