NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...

NASA has successfully extended into orbit an 80 m 2 (860 square foot) sail that is designed to catch emissions from the Sun ...

NASA is working on discovering exactly what time it is on the moon by creating a standardized time zone. The space agency ...

A giant solar sail recently unfurled by Nasa has been spotted “tumbling” through space. Astronomers captured the ...

Observations of the outer Solar System with the Subaru Telescope have discovered new bodies where none were expected. The new ...

There have been five spacecraft that have flown to the outer solar system (including New Horizons), but New Horizons is the ...

According to the experts, the mysterious objects could be essential for a better understanding of the formation of the solar ...

The weekend brought some wild space news, including a sailing spacecraft and, of course, a couple of astronauts stranded on the International Space Station.

Using the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified previously unknown celestial bodies in the outer Solar System, ...

Flasar, F. M. Kunde, V. G. Abbas, M. M. Achterberg, R. K. Ade, P. Barucci, A. B’ezard, B. Bjoraker, G. L. Brasunas, J. C. Calcutt, S. Carlson, R. C’esarsky, C. J ...

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst takes a selfie during an EVA outside the International Space Station in 2014. New research shows that when astronauts spend extended periods of time in space, their ...

The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is now fully deployed after ... operations and designs for solar sail-equipped science and exploration missions,” NASA wrote in its update.