Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

China wants to build a space-based solar power station in orbit around Earth, and it could do so in the next 25 years.

The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...

The concept of harnessing solar energy from space might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but it’s rapidly edging ...

Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the Sun’s light can feel on Earth.

New research has indicated that, if Alpha Centauri ejects as much material as the solar system, then as many as one million space rocks larger than 328 feet (100 meters) wide could be lurking in ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are both exploring uncharted territory in interstellar space. Engineers at ... instrument that ...

“The behavior of space-based solar power is unique as an energy resource ... because you don’t need to have very large systems for that. Just having several kilowatts would be really ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space, but their mission in interstellar ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space ...

Solar system boundary exploration was noted in a long-term space science roadmap published ... ameliorate the challenges of limited processing power onboard spacecraft. An AI-assisted approach ...