A budget proposal released on May 2 includes not only cuts to NASA's science budget, but an early end to its SLS moon rocket.

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Bhavya Lal, the former acting Chief Technologist at NASA explains how nuclear power could unlock humanity’s next giant leap in space.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Team X is suggesting major changes to the proposed Orbilander mission to Enceladus.

NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth ...

If Earth had massive rings like Saturn, our sky, weather, tides, and even life could be dramatically different. Scientists explore how stunning—and strange—our world would become under shimmering ...

In February 1979, scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepared for the exploration of Jupiter and ...

The Johns Hopkins APL-led team working on the first rotorcraft designed for scientific exploration on another ocean world has ...

Robert Lee Hotz covered new research and its impact on society for The Wall Street Journal.

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

From Robby, the Robot in Forbidden Planet, to the infamous C-3P0 from Star Wars, the use of robots for space exploration has ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...