There's a broad consensus in the scientific community that a follow-up mission to Pluto should be an orbiter, and not a ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian ...

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

Jupiter, with a diameter eleven times that of Earth, is the largest planet in the Solar System and the one with the second most satellites, a total of 95. A little-known fact to the general public is ...

It's popularly understood that no one can hear you scream in space, and yet, scientists have captured some pretty strange noises emanating from the cosmos.

Due to the different performances, the DFD would enable orbit insertion whereas for the solar sail, only a flyby is envisioned.

Space is a very big place, and as such, it's full of mysteries that scientists can't explain. Some of this is simply because it's impossible to fully observe, thanks to its sheer size and the ...