In a new study, researchers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed human deep space communications and found that human transmissions are frequently directed toward our own ...

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 ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant slingshot on its journey to a mysterious metal world that could reveal what’s hidden inside planets like Earth.

US technology company L3Harris Technologies announced it has finalised the design of a next-generation nuclear-based power ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will use Mars’ gravity on May 15 to gain speed and adjust its path toward the mysterious metal rich asteroid Psyche.

In April, scientists captured global attention by announcing they’d found a molecule in a faraway planet’s atmosphere that could signal life there. But a new analysis by University of Chicago ...

One would think that this excellent question would be easy to answer: A bucket full of “deep space” would contain essentially nothing — and, well, there you are! Outer space is, after all, the closest ...

The most distant and rewarding sights in the night sky are also the faintest. Here’s what deep-space objects are, what optics you’ll need to see them and how to plan your observing. When you purchase ...