There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

The design of TARS: a simple yet revolutionary system TARS fundamentally differs from traditional spacecraft propulsion systems. It does not rely on chemical rockets or nuclear power; instead, it ...

The design of TARS: a simple yet revolutionary system TARS fundamentally differs from traditional spacecraft propulsion systems. It does not rely on chemical rockets or nuclear power but instead ...

Reaching interstellar space could be far simpler than we thought, thanks to a new idea called TARS, or "Torqued Accelerator ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star located about 40 light years away that hosts seven Earth-sized rocky planets, with at least ...

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...

Our sun's fiery flares are even more extreme than scientists had thought, blasting particles to temperatures six times hotter ...

With new telescopes coming online and fresh discoveries arriving almost weekly, the search is only accelerating. Each new world we find is more than a point of light somewhere in the great darkness.

On Mars, things are a lot more static. It’s a single-plate planet with incredibly slow mixing. When InSight peered into the ...

A minimalist molecular coating enables organic devices to generate power and detect light indoors, resolving a materials ...