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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The legacy of Star Trek, which began in 1966, was carried on by several spinoff series, including Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, ...

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

Amidst a 2025 TV schedule that lacked Star Trek shows in the final months of the year, the Khan audio drama provided a fix ...