Portal Space Systems has raised $17.5 million to accelerate the development of a space vehicle with a solar thermal ...

A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...

The same dirt that clings to astronauts' boots may one day keep their lights on. In a study published in Device, researchers ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

VIPs cut the ribbon at Portal Space Systems’ HQ in Bothell ... vacuum chamber where components for Portal’s solar thermal propulsion system are being tested. In another corner, a 3D printer ...

Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within – ...

The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...

Scientists now believe that solar bursts hit the largest planet of our solar system two to three times a month.

The case for having a permanent base on the moon as a staging point for space exploration has been made many times over the ...

They also orbit near their stars, in many cases closer than Mercury is to the Sun. Our solar system, in contrast, appears to be different. “[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system ...

Stunning imagery from outer space shows the power of the Sun, with a massive solar flare and coronal mass ejection erupting from the giant star’s surface, but space experts say there is no need ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...