Understanding how plastics flow from land to sea is essential for solving the growing problem of plastic pollution. Rivers play a key role as major transport pathways, and accurate monitoring ...

Portal’s heat exchanger thruster, known as Flare, fires up during a test in a vacuum chamber. (Portal Space Systems Photo) Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems says it has successfully tested its ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

3I/ATLAS likely weighs more than 33 billion tons. The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say. A ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system. The object is a comet hailing from the direction of the constellation ...

This video follows NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft as it journeys beyond the heliosphere—the boundary where the Sun’s influence ends and interstellar space begins. It explores the probe’s discoveries ...

A research team from UNIST has unveiled a novel technology capable of extracting hydrogen (H₂) stored in ammonia (NH₃) by ...

Use cases for smart materials in space exploration keep cropping up everywhere. They are used in everything from antenna ...

San Diego Community Power announced Wednesday a $55 million initiative that will offer rebates and incentives to encourage its customers to install solar-plus-battery systems in their homes. “This is ...

A mysterious object hurtling through space has been identified as a rare “interstellar object,” only the third of its kind ever seen. In July, NASA reported its ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...