Solar sailing has moved from science fiction concept to working hardware, and now a new generation of entrepreneurs wants to ...

Satellite breakups and anti-satellite tests have created an alarming amount of debris, a crisis now exacerbated by the rapid expansion of commercial constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink. The ...

John Casani spent more than half a century turning speculative ideas about distant worlds into working spacecraft that could survive the trip. His quiet influence at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

For thirty years, SOHO has delivered an unprecedented, nearly unbroken view of the Sun, surviving multiple near-catastrophic ...

Blue Origin — Jeff Bezos’s hobby project — launched two satellites destined for a gravity-neutral point between the Earth and ...

Carson Creek flows through the rolling hills that are inside the Coyote Creek Solar project area in eastern Sacramento County on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. The land is home to dozens of special-status ...

This story was featured in our SacramenKnow newsletter. Sign up to get updates about what’s happening in the region in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors ...

For many, space travel is unrealistic – spaceships are expensive, and interplanetary exploration doesn’t fit in with a 9-to-5 schedule. But soon, Durangoans dreaming of voyaging through the solar ...

"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure of the universe." Astronomers have discovered that the solar system may be ...

the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas recently reached its perihelion, the point at which it is closest to the sun. It will now move away from the star at about 210,000 kilometers per hour until it escapes ...

A new solar project in Oregon, Illinois, is combining solar power with battery storage to provide more reliable energy to the community. The Ducks Solar project, developed by Equity Solar Illinois, is ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...