Wright-Patterson has played a central role in the US military’s real investigations into mysterious objects in the sky — from Cold War-era research programs to efforts to study what the government now ...

Pi Day, celebrated on March 14, highlights the significance of the mathematical constant pi in various fields, from education ...

Math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day every March 14, the date that represents the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi.

NASA’s SPARCS spacecraft has just sent back its first images, marking a major milestone in the mission to study low-mass ...

Technicians at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland have begun building and testing the ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Humanity’s plans for deep-space exploration hinge on the ability to use basic resources, such as water, to propel rockets to farther destinations in the solar system. Despite decades of ...

Former President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens "have made contact with us," after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the weekend. During a ...

Our customers rely on us to provide propulsion systems that perform as expected on orbit… For Orbion, delivering flight-ready hardware is not a milestone – it’s the way we operate.”” — Brad King, ...

The big picture: In deep-space travel, the race is no longer about who has the biggest rocket – it's about who can build the smartest plasma engine. As the competition to reach Mars intensifies, ...

It has long become obvious that if we are to expand our reach into the solar system, the current means of propulsion for spaceships would simply not do. With such goals set for the near future, the ...