The aging infrastructure of the Deep Space Network is operating at capacity and in desperate need of an upgrade. The latest ...

One of the largest antennas in NASA’s Deep Space Network was damaged in September and may be out of service for an extended ...

NASA’s 230-foot antenna, a crucial component of the Deep Space Network at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, ...

Americium is one of the lesser-known synthetic elements, first created in 1944 during the Manhattan Project. The isotope of interest for space is americium-241. Its half-life is a staggering 432 years ...

Star Trek fan Bjo Trimble played a big part in saving the original series, which resulted in an appearance in the first Trek ...

Spock is often credited as the smartest Star Trek character, yet there are characters, like Next Generation's Jean-Luc Picard ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

California-based TransAstra is testing an inflatable “Capture Bag” that comes in different sizes and is intended to catch ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

Through a vast ocean, Jupiter's moon Europa is an exciting target for research in the search for life. Two space probes are ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has intensified his call for NASA to release high-resolution images of the enigmatic interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, captured 40 days ago by the Mars Reconnaissance ...

The capstone of the middle five, this is arguably one of my most personally conflicted rankings. There’s a world where VI ...