Space exploration and travel
Researchers suggest that flexible blankets or domes made of silica aerogel could protect crops on the red planet.
A different set of ingredients may be needed to take the next giant leap for humankind.
How you cover a trip to the moon and share the news with the world.
Half a century after Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon, can NASA recover the sense of adventure that sparked its Cold War triumph?
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected changes in Jupiter’s magnetic field, making it the first planet known to share this feature with Earth.
The tiny world of Ultima Thule, which lies at the outer edges of the solar system, is flattened like a pancake, with few craters.
Space salt, Martian clay, and unexpected X-rays feature in this month's slideshow.
Scientists are trying to perfect a technique for growing crops in space so that astronauts have enough food to get to Mars and back.
An assortment of twinkling images of space, stars and spacecrafts.