How can nanosatellites help advance lunar exploration and settlement? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

Before Perseverance was launched, NASA equipped it with nine bits: one for Martian soil, two for removing the dust-covered ...

Idahoans and all Americans who value our public mountains, forests, rivers and streams must stand up to protect our public ...

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A recent article published by SciTechDailyhighlights how NASA’s Apollo astronauts prepared for the Moon’s rugged landscape by ...

The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...

Tested between -400 and 212 degrees Fahrenheit, these thermoplastic wheels are tougher than anything we use on Earth.

NASA researchers at Huntsville are conducting research to ensure that landings on potentially unstable lunar surface proceed ...

The breakthrough comes from researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, who set out to replicate the harsh lunar ...

In a fascinating intersection of space exploration and Earth science, NASA’s Apollo astronauts once trained on the alien-like ...

China approved international requests, including from two U.S. universities, to borrow small portions of moon samples ...

observing that the temperature swings on the moon "were really, really crazy." Adding to the temperature revelation was ...