At the edge of our solar system, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has detected a stunning “wall of fire,” a boundary where ...

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 ...

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

Research in space is about more than discovery. It is a strategic asset and soft power that attracts partners and supports ...

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

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE ...

The upcoming feature will reportedly not continue the J.J. Abrams-led reboot series and will not feature Chris Pine or any ...

Whether they need a classic Trek retcon or complete erasure, these are five episodes whose place in the canon should be reconsidered.

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

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science ...

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 ...

For the first time in more than five years, humanity has launched a mission to Mars — but it won't be arriving at the Red ...