To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Two commercial space probes have just set off on a mission to the Moon. This is a pretty big deal for lunar exploration and shows how private companies are stepping up their game. The success of ...

Most people hear “spacecraft” and envision rockets blasting into space, but they’re often not aware of the meticulous ...

Pandora's exoplanet science working group is led by the University of Arizona, and Pandora will be the first mission to have its operations center at the U of A Space Institute. The completion of ...

the engines of satellites and space probes. Hall thrusters, a key space technology for missions like SpaceX's Starlink constellation and NASA's Psyche asteroid mission, are high-efficiency ...

Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ...

Lunar Trailblazer is part of a growing list of probes and landers heading toward the moon to search for water ice.

“It’s really exciting stuff,” says Ramiz Qudsi, a space physicist at Boston ... who is working with ispace on mission concepts. That would allow probes to operate through the lunar night ...

China plans to launch the Tianwen 2 probe this year ... Explorer (SMILE), a joint mission satellite between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the European Space Agency, launched this year.

Blue Ghost, the "little lander" from Firefly Aerospace that's headed to the moon, has captured the littlest lunar eclipse ...