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 ...

Four decades after the first spacecraft began leaving the Earth- Moon system to explore the solar system, the United States is re-examining its priorities for space exploration. This exercise is ...

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' ...

At 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 13, at NASA Langley Research Center’s Reid Conference Center here, Patrick Troutman, the lead for human exploration architecture integration for the NASA Human ...

A comprehensive history of the first 50 years of solar system exploration would fill many volumes. What readers will find in this volume is a collection of interesting stories about money, politics, ...

"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 ...