The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...

From historic firsts in reusable rockets to commercial spacewalks, 2024 was a transformative year in exploring the cosmos.

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) partnered with the Polaris Program to collect biomedical data from its spaceflight participants during the Polaris Dawn mission. Polaris ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the four Polaris Dawn private astronauts no earlier than Aug. 26 from Cape Canaveral ...

For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the Polaris Dawn mission would include the first-ever private spacewalk. Not only would this be the first time anyone ...

By venturing into the void without the usual safety net of governmental oversight, the Polaris Dawn mission has opened the door to a future where space isn’t just the playground of governments.

In a study published in AGU Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) used data ...

India docked two satellites in space Thursday, a key milestone for the country’s dreams of a space station and manned Moon ...