Director Roland Emmerich’s 1996 alien invasion movie Independence Day arrives on Netflix today and I, for one, can’t wait to watch the film for what might be the 50th time. Sure, there are plenty of ...

New theoretical models have strengthened the case that immense, energy-harvesting structures orbiting their host stars could exist in principle in distant stellar systems. With the right engineering ...

Nilton O. Rennó receives funding from NASA, JPL, DARPA, and IARPA. Mars is a very dry planet with very little water in its atmosphere and hardly any clouds, so you might not expect it to have storms.

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NASA and the Department of Energy (DOE) on Tuesday announced plans to develop a nuclear reactor for the surface of the moon by 2030. The two agencies recently signed a new memorandum of understanding ...

NASA and the US Department of Energy are working to develop and deploy a nuclear reactor on the moon’s surface within the next four years — fulfilling one of President Trump’s visions for space ...

Civilian travel to the Moon remains years away, but a California startup is already making plans to host overnight guests there. GRU Space, founded by 22-year-old entrepreneur Skyler Chan, is taking ...

Scientists and NASA officials insist the object is a natural comet, not alien technology. Recent observations found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it was artificial. The comet made ...

A company called GRU Space publicly announced its intent to construct a series of increasingly sophisticated habitats on the Moon, culminating in a hotel inspired by the Palace of the Fine Arts in San ...

As it is getting ready to send people to the Moon once more and targets a human expedition to Mars, American space agency NASA is completely rethinking the way it does things. That includes, among ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...