It was likely debris from Kosmos 482 — a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 as part of a mission to Venus. The launch failed. The probe never made it to its ...

It’s not so much a traditional clock as it is a measuring tool, but it’s all that’s needed to do some basic, interplanetary calculations As an example, the team suggests a scenario in which a ...

A Missouri S&T team is gearing up to reveal its Mars rover design for a competition in May. Its leader is a Columbia native.

On a chilly morning at Marlboro Elementary, three eighth graders gather around a table strewn with notebooks, laptops, and a stack of planetary data sheets. They’re not just ...

NASA finds carbon molecules in ancient Martian lake, and scientists admit it is difficult to explain them without life.

How a simple math mistake caused the loss of a million-dollar Mars spacecraft.

Elon Musk recently announced that SpaceX is putting Mars colonization on the back burner. Instead, he plans to build a cosmic city much closer to home.

Mathematics is abstract, objective, and brusquely devoid of sentiment. Right? Wrong. Maths divulges to have the astonishing ...

The stark reality of space travel seems to suggest that humanity's presence on the moon is likely to stay tethered to Earth ...

At first glance, it looks like abstract theory. But this branch of mathematics has become one of the most powerful tools for prediction in the modern world. It helps forecast weather, model financial ...

Scientists have found that ancient Martian lakes could have survived for decades despite freezing air temperatures. Using a newly adapted climate model, researchers showed that thin, seasonal ice ...