Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

THERE are lots of ideas on how humans can terraform Mars, and turn the dusty, radioactive Red Planet into something habitable. Scientists have suggested we start with Antarctic desert moss, and ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

The eight main planets have largely done so ... of scores or even hundreds of impressively sized icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt. So, like Xena and Ceres, the largest asteroid in a band between ...

Amazon's Project Kuiper was expected to send its first batch of satellites to space, a big step in its mission to launch satellite internet and compete with SpaceX’s Starlink service.

In his paper, "Energy problems of terraforming Mars," Dr. Czechowski suggests smashing the planet with asteroids from the Kuiper Belt or the dense, but currently theoretical, Oort Cloud.

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing celestial objects from the Kuiper Belt—which are full of the ...

Amazon is vying to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service with the launch of Project Kuiper. Weather permitting, Amazon will launch 27 satellites into orbit Wednesday evening ...