NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) tech flying aboard Psyche spacecraft has been successfully demonstrated.

Inside a 55-foot-tall vacuum chamber at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, engineers spent weeks subjecting Blue Origin’s uncrewed lunar lander to the kind of punishment only deep space can deliver: ...

Future deep space missions may need to refuel in orbit before they can head to their final destinations. NASA has been ...

Nuclear propulsion and power technologies could unlock new frontiers in missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA has reached an important milestone advancing nuclear propulsion that could benefit ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...

DARPA wants to find out with the first launch of the dexterous, deep-space robot program as soon as this summer. DARPA's Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) payload resides in the ...

Buying Guide Here are the best telescopes for deep space — gaze far into the night sky and survey the cosmos in impressive detail. NASA's ambitious mission to return astronauts to the moon for the ...

This screenshot from CCTV (China Central Television) shows China’s first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, in an image taken by the camera on the Chang’e 3 moon lander, Dec. 15, 2013. China does not ...