The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered ...

A system of multiple lasers and pellet beams could accelerate many missions to the solar gravitational lens point within 20 years of launch. Each one meter telescope at the solar gravitational lens ...

NASA NIAC has funded studying the development of a constellation of spacecraft powered by the Helicity Drive, a compact and ...

NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons’ mission of exploration of the outer solar system.

A comprehensive history of the first 50 years of solar system exploration would fill many volumes. What readers will find in this volume is a collection of interesting stories about money, politics, ...

Tianwen-3 will attempt a Mars sample return in late 2028, while Tianwen-4 plans to explore the Jupiter system and potentially reach Uranus, marking a bold entrance into outer solar system exploration.

NASA has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. of Redmond, Washington, to design and develop an advanced electric propulsion system that will significantly advance the nations commercial space ...

"You wanted this moment to belong just to yourself and the landscape: sunset on the rim of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system." ...

In an article published by Fox News, Loeb suggested that the object’s peculiar behavior might indicate that it is not a natural phenomenon, but an artificial probe sent on a reconnaissance mission.

"Solar System Exploration @ 50" was held in Washington, D.C., on 25-26 October 2012. The purpose of this symposium was to consider, over the more than 50-year history of the Space Age, what we have ...