The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...

How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans? This is what a recent ...

A new ultra-thin lightsail design could cut interstellar travel time by centuries, say scientists from Brown and TU Delft.

Jean Prokott—a decade-long Century High School English teacher, the city’s third Poet Laureate, a recent recipient of a $50K ...

Here’s how it works. On March 31, 1962, NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft. This small capsule could carry two astronauts into space at a time. NASA created the Gemini program ...

In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective membrane designed to ride a column of laser light to incredible speeds.

Right now, space travel is very slow. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, has traveled over 15 billion miles—but that’s not even 1% of the distance to Alpha Centauri, the star ...

Since it launched in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled more than 15 billion miles into deep space. That’s an incredible distance, yet it’s still less than 1% of the way to Alpha Centauri, ...

In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective membrane designed to ride a column of laser light to incredible speeds.