The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered ...

How can thermoelectric generators (TEGs) help advance future lunar surface habitats? This is what a recent study published in ...

Mistakes are made,” he said. Trump’s NASA budget could cede solar system to China, scientists warn© Nasa/JPL-Caltech Artist concept of NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.© NASA/JPL ...

NASA NIAC has funded studying the development of a constellation of spacecraft powered by the Helicity Drive, a compact and ...

NASA's Dr David Grinspoon claims there could be life on the dwarf planet Ceres as astrobiologists are constantly 'surprised' ...

The Solar System is a vast and mysterious realm, filled with planets, moons, asteroids, and icy bodies waiting to be discovered. This journey will take us through the outer planets and beyond ...

And it’s notable that all of the solar system exploration missions that NASA has undertaken over the past half-century have raised as many exciting new research questions as they have answered.

HAMPTON, Va. – There are plans at NASA to boldly go where no human as gone before, how to get there, and who will help make it happen. At 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 13, at NASA Langley Research ...

NASA is expanding its successful Lunar Science Institute (NLSI), established in 2008 at NASA Ames, to broaden its research base to other solar system destinations. SSERVI will address scientific ...

We are entering a new stage in the exploration of the solar system, one that inverts the theme of much that came before. Big is out and small is in. The hot destinations in space right now are comets ...

"Solar System Exploration @ 50" was held in Washington, D.C., on 25-26 October 2012. The purpose of this symposium was to consider, over the more than 50-year history of the Space Age, what we have ...