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

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

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, ...

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 ...

On May 28, China officially launched its Tianwen-2 mission from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, marking a major step in its growing ambitions in planetary exploration. The mission aims to ...

"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." ...

"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 ...