Sometime in the mid-2030s, three spacecraft flying in formation around the Sun will start eavesdropping on the gravitational ripples of...

Researchers in Japan have turned the cameras inside ordinary smartphones and Raspberry Pi computers into working cosmic ray detectors, demonstrating...

Some of the most trusted long-range forecasts in celestial mechanics rest on a deceptively simple maneuver: average away the rapid...

Every time a spacecraft comes home, it does so by riding a wall of fire. A vehicle returning from orbit...

Traversable wormholes—shortcuts threading space-time like a tunnel through a mountain—have haunted theoretical physics for nearly a century, and every serious...

A new modeling system that combines signals from navigation satellites with observations from a Chinese weather satellite has produced a...

A mathematical study has overturned a long-standing expectation about gravitational waves: a spacetime can remain geodesically complete even when its...

A coupled numerical model shows how aluminum particle size changes combustion stages, burning time, vaporization, and condensed alumina formation.

Researchers propose continuous supply-chain due diligence to make lunar resource extraction and space-based manufacturing safer, more accountable and more sustainable.

A single, oblique collision may have transformed Deimos from an ordinary fragment of the early Solar System into the smooth,...