A new technique can safely guide an autonomous robot without knowledge of its environmental conditions or the size, shape, or location of obstacles it might encounter.

Take note, future colonisers: you may be able to grow stuff in certain places on the Moon.

If the mission goes well, private company Axiom Space will move on to building a space station.

If the mission goes well, private company Axiom Space will move on to building a space station.

Among thousands of known exoplanets, MIT astronomers flag three that are actually stars.

The planet’s night side likely hosts iron clouds, titanium rain, and winds that dwarf Earth’s jetstream.

A levitating vehicle might someday explore the moon, asteroids, and other airless planetary surfaces.

A new study shows it’s theoretically possible. The hypothesis could be tested soon with proposed Venus-bound missions.

A space station on the Moon could be built out of lunar concrete.