"Interstellar navigation is a complex, systematic engineering task. Breakthroughs in a single discipline cannot support the ...

Traveling to the stars might remain a dream forever. Vast distances, physics limits, time dilation, and cosmic hazards make interstellar missions nearly impossible. Instead, humanity’s greatest ...

The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) unveiled its new School of Space Exploration on Tuesday in Beijing, marking a key step toward cultivating talent for China's deep space exploration ...

Ahead of the launch of Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years, astronauts share the movies that capture the danger, teamwork, and wonder of spaceflight. Their picks ...

The institution, envisioned roughly 70 years ago, will bring together scientists from multiple fields to advise the country’s next generation of aerospace scientists.

Beyond Mars, the vastness of space challenges human imagination and technology. Learn why reaching neighboring stars with current spacecraft would take millennia, and how theoretical concepts like ...

Has driving through history ever been so cool, beautiful and timely than visiting Cape Canaveral, the original and current ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Zhu Junqiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and dean of the newly established School of Space ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...