MAVEN has circled Mars for more than a decade, exploring the planet and relaying data from robots on the surface.

NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars ...

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is one of only three NASA missions currently in operation around Mars, and one ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

Scientists finally caught solar neutrinos triggering a rare atomic transformation once thought nearly impossible to observe.

China and Brazil have begun building a joint laboratory for space technologies, Chinese state-owned defence electronics firm CETC said, deepening scientific ties as the two countries push ahead with a ...

NASA has lost contact with a Mars orbiter that has circled the planet for more than a decade, collecting science data and ...

Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these ...

Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth.

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

With negotiated rule making under way, and 2026 implementation deadlines looming, a new deep-dive report from Inside Higher ...