Affected swaths of ocean are roughly the same size as Africa, China, Europe and North America’s land areas combined.

China and Russia to build a lunar nuclear power station by the year 2036 Reactor will support China–Russia joint lunar base ILRS at the Moon's s Robotic construction of the lunar plant to occur withou ...

The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...

Lunar exploration is entering a new era. Long after the Apollo missions, a renewed international interest comes with ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a near-Earth small asteroid and retrieve its samples for scientists. Carrying the Tianwen 2 robotic ...

Japan is literally reaching for the stars with an ambitious new mission called Project OHISAMA. Spearheaded by Japan Space ...

Vermeer and Interlune revealed a full-size prototype “excavator” to dig up dirt on the moon at 100 metric tons per hour to ...

The fact that everything is supercharged and even amplified is due to the sun, the new moon, Mercury, and also Jupiter being ...

China has fired a precision laser across 80,778 miles (130,000 km) of space in broad daylight, bounced it off a satellite circling the Moon, and measured the return, marking the world’s first ...

Can Mars become a second Earth? Explore the science, challenges, and future of terraforming Mars for human colonization.

Astronomers discover many asteroids and comets each year, some of which are near-Earth objects (NEOs) that move through the ...