"Solar System Exploration @ 50" was held in Washington, D.C., on 25-26 October 2012. The purpose of this symposium was to consider, over the more than 50-year history of the Space Age, what we have ...

In 2017, Dove was awarded the Susan Niebur Award Early Career Award by the NASA Solar System Exploration Virtual Research Institute for her contributions to the science and exploration communities.

Spokane native and NASA astronaut Anne McClain has now safely traveled to space and back, twice. McClain, a U.S Army Colonel and commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission, splashed down off the coast ...

A large lunar crater featured in the iconic 'Earthrise' photo has just helped the European JUICE spacecraft hone its ...

At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s ...

NASA plans to establish a continuous lunar presence by 2030 with a nuclear reactor, crucial for powering habitats and ...

The US is rushing to put nuclear power reactors on the Moon and Mars, and hopes to launch the first system by the end of the ...

As NASA eyes a return to the moon, the agency has set an ambitious goal: deploy a nuclear reactor on the lunar surface by ...

The spacecraft also captured the only in-space observation of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter in real time, a moment that marked a first in solar system exploration.

Meteorites, captivating cosmic relics, provide a rare insight into the origins and evolution of our solar system. More than ...

I don't think space or lunar tourism is going to be the big draw that transforms the moon into something unrecognizable.

Built by Lockheed Martin and operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Juno launched from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 5, 2011, ...