Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

Supernovas are powerful explosions marking the death of massive stars. They spread elements like carbon, calcium, and iron ...

Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...

The worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission by providing a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

A supernova — the explosive death of a massive star — can leave behind a black hole or neutron star. These cosmic blasts are element factories, spreading carbon, calcium, and iron across space, ...

A scientists has warned that a destructive asteroid could be heading towards Earth and we don't have the technology to detect ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

Hollywood films would have us believe the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of orbit. But the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking at a far subtler approach to ...

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...