Strange expects that solar panels of sufficient power for the first cislunar missions will be available by 2020. A marriage of the tortoise and the hare may be the key to exploring the Solar System. [...]

This is incredible. Taken by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, this 108,500×81,500-pixel image is an interesting case study for Olbers’ Paradox. Containing nearly 9 billion [...]

With 20 years’ notice, paint pellets could cause an asteroid to veer off course. In the event that a giant asteroid is headed toward Earth, you’d better hope that it’s blindingly white. A pale asteroid [...]

The space agency is developing a service robot that can visit ailing satellites and refuel or even repair them on the spot. Geostationary satellites cost a fortune and, despite their sophistication, they break down or [...]

University of Adelaide applied mathematicians have extended Einstein’s theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light. Einstein’s theory holds that nothing could move faster than the speed of light, but Professor Jim [...]

Science can be mightier than the Sword In 1969, a great shadow was cast over the United States. That shadow, however, was not one of gloom. Instead of evoking the absence of light, this shadow [...]

Experts predict near-Earth space will become difficult to navigate by mid-century unless agencies start removing the mess. Gassy outbursts from a suborbital rocket may be the cleanest way to get rid of hazardous space debris, [...]

The first steps towards interstellar travel have been taken, but the stars are very far away. Voyager 1 is about 17 light-hours distant from Earth and is traveling with a velocity of 0.006 percent of [...]

Interorbital offers CubeSat berths for $10,000 a pop. MANY a youngster, Babbage included, has dreamed of going into space. But becoming an astronaut is a hard slog. Sandy Antunes suggests a less daunting proxy. An astrophysicist and [...]

“Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a remote possibility.” These are the words of Dr. Harold “Sonny” White, the Advanced Propulsion Theme Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate. Dr. White and [...]

“The larger the optics, the better the image,” A few Air Force Academy researchers hope to take their latest invention where few have gone before — to near-Earth orbit. They took a major step in [...]

To investigate whether the core of Mars is solid or liquid NASA has selected a new mission, set to launch in 2016, that will take the first look into the deep interior of Mars to [...]