The left panel shows the solar system and Earth. The upper right panel presents the layered structure of the Earth, with arrows showing the coupling between mantle convection and tectonic plate motion ...

On September 3, the 2026 Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu) International Conference opened in Hefei. Themed "Sustainable Deep Space Exploration: Opportunities and Challenges," ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 recently encountered and survived a staggering temperature of 50,000°C while traveling through deep space. This event, reported on September 23, 2025, has raised significant interest ...

Approximately 250 mi. above Lake Michigan, International Space Station astronaut Don Pettit captured this long-exposure photograph of city lights streaking across Earth as a green and red aurora moved ...

HEFEI, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- China has officially launched a scientific program to construct a satellite constellation in the Earth-moon space in collaboration with multiple countries, filling gaps in ...

Titan’s resources could make Saturn’s largest moon an outpost for deep space exploration. It has weather, clouds, rain, lakes, and seas, but its cycle is driven by methane rather than water. It is ...

Room-temperature liquid metals could benefit deep-space exploration, enabling advances in propulsion, thermal management, soft robotics, smart spacesuits, and life support systems. (Nanowerk News) A ...

This week, America launched the first crewed deep space mission in over fifty years, and we should all be proud of the role North Alabama played in making it happen. Since the first lunar mission, the ...

Next-generation rockets are changing space exploration by making launch vehicles more reusable, powerful, and capable of supporting deep space missions. Modern rocket technology is no longer focused ...

It's been more than half a century since humans first walked on the moon. American astronaut Neil Armstrong first set foot there in July 1969. The last human on the moon left in the lunar module just ...