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

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, led by Queen’s University Belfast, have revealed that millions of new solar ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A new international project promises to “revolutionise” our knowledge of the solar system through discovering millions of its ...

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 ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.