Explore India's strategic opportunities in nuclear power in earth orbit and on the moon amid evolving energy needs.

Each rocket launch sends valuable materials that cannot be recovered into outer space and emits large amounts of greenhouse ...

Earth's orbit is getting crowded with junk. And that's becoming a major problem. Starting with Sputnik I in 1957, humanity has sent up nearly 17,000 satellites. Around 11,500 of them are still there, ...

American space science sits at a crossroads, with unmatched technical capability on one side and mounting political and ...

Lower gravity. Higher radiation. No ER access. These are just a few of the challenges that humans face in outer space. Emily and Regina talk to a NASA astronaut (and astronaut scientist) about the ...

According to the findings, published in the journal iScience on November 20, the discovery enhances our understanding of how ...

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to overcome extreme cold and dwindling power. When you purchase through links on ...

Humanity's quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it. While conventional wisdom suggests that space launch via ...

Space questions everything about what we know about existence and consists of gigantic stars, icy comets and distant worlds ...

Astronauts could soon be able to move more freely in space thanks to robotic trousers developed by British scientists. Not only does the ground-breaking technology have out-of-this-world benefits, but ...