Pt. 1. The golden age, 1957-1982. The beginning -- Of landers and orbiters -- The grandest tour -- Pt. 2. Hiatus and renewal, 1983-1996. The decade of Halley -- The era of flagships -- Faster, cheaper ...

"Trip to the Planets, A" is a black-and-white science film featuring imaginative depictions of space travel in a giant airship. Heavy on intertitles, the film employs animation and detailed models to ...

A pellet of plutonium 238, illuminated by the glow of its own radioactivity. NASA and other space agencies use this material in radioisotope power sources for interplanetary missions to the solar ...

HOUSTON—The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 and NASA’s Osiris-Rex missions are writing a new chapter in the exploration of Solar System bodies as they explore the rugged ...

An exciting new era of globally-coordinated space exploration is foreseen by the fourteen space organisations who met here in Kyoto, Japan from 7th to 9th March 2007. Following a space exploration ...

Earth has always wondered—is there life beyond our solar system? Dive into the mysteries of UFOs, extraterrestrial theories, ...

HELSINKI — Researchers are examining how artificial intelligence technologies could support a planned Chinese mission to the boundaries of the solar system, according to a new paper. Artificial ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years But RPS is expensive, costing ...