Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...

The universe is a vast and often baffling place, and even with our most powerful telescopes, there are still plenty of things ...

Scientists and engineers are diligently working on innovative concepts to make the next era of human spaceflight more powerful and more efficient using nuclear propulsion. One of these designs, known ...

A world-first study has proven microbes essential for human health can survive the extreme forces of space launch. The study ...

Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on ...

For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet by directly imaging it. The newfound world has a mass roughly similar to Saturn and orbits inside the debris disk ...

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 ...

Microbes essential for human health can survive the extreme forces of space launch, reveals new research. The world-first ...

In a boon to human space travel, new research has shown that bacteria essential to our health can survive rocket launches and ...