A laser-based ice drill can bore deep, narrow channels into ice while keeping both mass and energy requirements lower than ...

Back in July, NASA's ATLAS telescope in Chile spotted a mysterious space object moving at break-neck speeds towards our ...

Final tests of NASA's laser beam communication technology suggests we'll soon have a new way to keep in touch with astronauts and spacecraft venturing into deep space.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is about to be studied from not one but two locations in deep space. The comet has just gone ...

Time is running short for scientists hoping to collect data from 3I/Atlas, a massive interstellar object hurtling away from ...

Asteroids, comets, and clouds contain complex organic molecules that form in space and might have kickstarted life on Earth ...

NASA’s Voyager probes are failing, creating an urgent need for a new deep-space mission. A proposed interstellar probe could reveal the true shape and role of the heliosphere.

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

A new project is collecting thousands of messages destined for the cosmos, coinciding with the anniversary of a landmark ...

Aug. 27 (UPI) --The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is ready for a planned flyby of Venus on Sunday after the agency fixed its communications system. ESA officials commonly refer to ...

In 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman discovered the mysterious “Wow! Signal” — a powerful radio burst from deep space at the hydrogen line frequency. Nearly five decades later, scientists believe the newly ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could they hear us? A new study combining data from Penn State and NASA’s Jet ...