The dream of a solar-self-charging electric vehicle lives on. A Ford patent application was published this week for a roof-mounted device that, with a flip of a switch, cocoons the entire parked ...

Space exploration is a very tough business in many ways, but perhaps more so because of the technology that has to be invented for it to achieve its goal. From launch to landing, every single element ...

Back in the summer of last year, shortly after the Perseverance rover had landed on Mars, NASA presented the idea of an inflatable heat shield. Such a presentation is not something NASA hadn’t done ...

A ground crew at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California lifts a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket into a vertical position to prepare for its launch. Credit: U.S. Space Force / Steve Gerlich ...

The LOFTID mission tested a novel approach to guiding spacecraft through the extreme heat of returning from orbit, which could be used to put people on Mars. By Kenneth Chang On Thursday morning, NASA ...