A powerful software tool capable of accurately modeling how cameras capture light could help democratize the development of ...

Do we know what space actually smells like? And what about other planets, moons, and celestial bodies? Here's what the ...

The X-37B was meant to rescue astronauts. Now, it's flying multi-year missions for the Pentagon with an unknown payload. Some say it's a spy. Others think it's armed. Whether it's testing solar panels ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Sept 5 (Reuters) - The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG.L), opens new tab has ceded exclusive rights to the rooftop of its data centre building to allow fair access to rivals, following a British ...

The SpaceX Starship launch scheduled for Aug. 24 was cancelled due to "an issue with ground systems," the company posted on X shortly before the anticipated launch time. The scheduled launch had ...

Radioisotope power systems (RPS) keep spacecraft going with nuclear batteries. Until now, RPS operated using a plutonium isotope, but researchers have found that an isotope of americium could keep ...

Today Psyche spacecraft on 2025 September 4 has a chance to look at 0.302 AU distance as 3I/Atlas passes by Mars. October, the martian spacecraft array on 2025 October 3 and the Juice spacecraft on ...

A bacterial species found in spacecraft clean rooms can survive intensive antimicrobial cleaning by going dormant, new research finds. That’s important because other clean-room survivors had been ...

Abstract: Spacecraft autonomy is a major barrier to increasing the scope, ambition, and affordability of both Earth-based and deep-space missions. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers huge potential in ...

Spotting Earth-like planets is nearly impossible with conventional telescopes, but researchers propose a bold fix: a rectangular design that can separate a planet’s faint glow from its blinding star.

In a breakthrough that could reshape how we protect Earth from space weather, scientists successfully forecasted a powerful solar storm more than 15 hours before it reached the planet. The findings, ...