A high stakes voyage The European Space Agency launched the Rosetta spacecraft in 2004. Its destination was a massive, fast ...

NASA's SunRISE mission has been assigned a new rocket: It will now be delivered to orbit by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rather than ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently came out of hibernation to continue its journey through an unexplored part of the ...

These were Solar Cruiser (which aims to use a massive solar sail to monitor space weather near Earth), Project Svarog (plans to leave the solar system by traveling close to the sun), and Breakthrough ...

Solar eclipses are a rare and brief opportunity for scientists to gather data on everything from the physics of the sun to air pressure in the upper atmosphere The evidence is mounting: this ...

Reusable rockets drastically cut launch costs for deep-space missions.Orbital manufacturing plus asteroid mining unlock ...

The metasurface is the six-millimetre-sized circle at the centre of the disk. (Courtesy: Noah Rubin) A compact optical ...

In this roundup of space news, we talk about sugar molecules in space, a call for volunteers for a simulated Moon/Mars mission and next steps for NASA's New Horizons probe.

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our solar system that could support life in some form.

The Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural sciences, health sciences, applied sciences and social sciences, according to their ...