Georgina Torbet

The Starliner debacle fueled speculation that the space agency would dump Boeing. But if it did, it would be left with SpaceX — and Elon Musk.

Getting to Mars will be easy. It’s the whole ‘living there’ part that we haven’t figured out.

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is already running over budget and behind schedule. But it may also be our best chance of finding extraterrestrial life.

‘The old fear has come back.’

Dark energy, a force responsible for the expansion of the universe, is mostly unknown. But this month, researchers released a new survey meant to unpack its mysteries.

The failure of recent missions highlights the challenges of relying on private entities to spearhead the US’s lunar ambitions.

If we want to go to Mars, we need a better way to reliably relay messages through space. The solution could be optical communication, or lasers.

The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has collected as much as several hundred grams of asteroid material, which could help scientists understand the earliest stages of the Solar System.