Maintaining the fuel at temperatures below –183°C is key: even small heat leaks in space can cause gases to boil off.

Space exploration is a field of study full of things to discover, but not only in the most remote places in the universe. The ...

You might be hearing about future plans to colonize Mars or establish a base on the moon, but these ideas are older than humankind's first forays out of the atmosphere. In fact there have been several ...

Astronomically, you would need to be a bit further than either of the Earth’s first two Lagrange Points to be 1 million miles away from the ground or go to the moon and back, twice. See All 29 ...

The elevator would pass through the Earth-moon Lagrange point, a stable gravity-neutral zone ideal for space infrastructure. Scientists view it as the perfect site for building orbital labs ...

The moon feels like a beautiful constant for many of us, there every night, but Earth’s satellite is actually slowly moving away from us, albeit very slowly. By NASA’s calculations the moon is ...

The Weather Channel reports that the Earth’s moon is moving further away from our planet, albeit at an extremely slow pace. NASA scientists have found that our natural satellite is inching away ...

The first samples of moon dust brought back to Earth for more than 50 years are in the UK - being studied by scientists in Milton Keynes. "It really humbles me to think that I am one of the seven ...

Every now and then, the Earth finds itself with a new companion moon – 2022 NX 1 became a mini-moon in 1981 and 2022, for example – and we get an opportunity to look at them up close.