At this time last year, the scientists working on Kepler, NASA’s fantastically successful planet-hunting space telescope, were ecstatic. The probe, launched in 2009, had originally been given just ...

Millennium Space Systems and Sinclair Interplanetary announced today at the AIAA/USU SmallSat Conference held in Logan, UT, that Millennium is the exclusive U.S. manufacturer and distributor of ...

Images snapped by the Curiosity Rover’s onboard imaging system earlier this year indicated that its aluminum wheels were breaking down. As it would seem, nearly 10 miles of roving on the red planet’s ...

Michelin has developed what looks like a tire but is actually a wheel that's capable of surviving the moon's harsh environment. The wild-looking wheels, which can withstand extreme temperatures and ...

WASHINGTON — A reaction wheel on NASA’s Kepler spacecraft continues to experience elevated levels of friction after a brief rest period, but project officials say that does not necessarily imply an ...

Over the past few decades, numerous space probes sent to the far-flung reaches of the Solar System have fallen silent. These failures weren’t due to communications problems, probes flying into ...