(The Soviet Union had sent a remotely controlled rover to the moon, Lunokhod 1, in 1970.) After the dramatic accomplishments of the 1960s and 1970s, the major space agencies turned their attention ...

Accidental contamination shows how even NASA missions can send resilient Earth microbes to other planets, risking false ...

I think some scientists demonstrated this in the early 1900s. So, carmakers liked to show just how much stuff one could cram ...

The Tianwen-2 probe, which was launched on Thursday, represents a "significant step in China’s new journey of interplanetary ...

It's the first evidence of cloud convection in the northern hemisphere of Saturn’s enigmatic moon. NASA just brought Voyager 1’s dead thrusters back to life—right before the spacecraft goes ...