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Could we find aliens terraforming other worlds?

The first early humans to use fire had no inkling of what it would lead to.

NASA selects 2013 NASA Innovative Advanced Technology Concepts for continued study

NASA has selected six technology proposals for continued study under the agency's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program.

Video: BepiColombo mission to Mercury

BepiColombo is scheduled for launch at 01:45 GMT (03:45 CEST) on 20 October on an Ariane 5 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou.

NASA to host launch tweetup for Jupiter-bound mission

Company seeking money to build space telescope

A U.S. company that wants to send robots into space to mine precious metals from asteroids has found another way to use the expensive technology it's developing for its space venture.

Worries about spreading Earth microbes shouldn't slow search for life on Mars

There may be no bigger question than whether we are alone in our solar system. As our spacecraft find new clues about the presence of liquid water now or in the past on Mars, the possibility of some kind of life there looks ...

SwRI's Strofio will measure Mercury's 'exosphere'

The European Space Agency's BepiColombo spacecraft will launch towards Mercury carrying a unique payload designed and built at Southwest Research Institute: an instrument called Strofio, which will study Mercury's tenuous ...

A tiny quadcopter could gather rocks for China's sample return mission

Space exploration is always changing. Before February 2021 there had never been a human made craft flying around in the atmosphere of another world (other than rocket propelled landers arriving or departing). The Mars Perseverance ...

Mars helicopter Ingenuity has ended its mission, paving the way for more flying vehicles on other planets, moons

It is difficult to emphasize the significance of the milestone surpassed by Nasa's Mars helicopter, Ingenuity.

Researchers outline goals for collecting and studying samples from Mars

Returning samples from the surface of Mars has been a high-priority goal of the international Mars exploration community for many years. Although randomly collected samples would be potentially interesting, they would not ...