Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

The creator of the futuristic Orion capsule, the only spacecraft capable of speeding aeronauts to the Moon, is set to begin ...

Using lunar ice to make rocket fuel could help future lunar settlements sustain themselves and provide a launch pad for ...

With space tourism set for liftoff, space medicine is about to become a crucial specialty. And this place is becoming a hub ...

Low Earth orbit has quietly become one of the most crowded and hazardous environments humanity has ever created, with an ...

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an ...

New findings indicate that the current "Design for Demise" protocol for satellites is creating a secondary environmental ...

There is a moment most people recognise. A phone battery dips into the red. A charger is reached for without much thought.

Specifically flagged by the UNEP are air pollution from launch emissions, spacecraft emissions in the stratosphere, as well ...

Mark Medley is The Globe and Mail’s Deputy Opinion Editor. He is the author of Live to See the Day: Impossible Goals, ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...