Debates on space exploration's merits span across business, academia and government circles. While some stress the urgency of Earth's conservation, emphasizing it as our primary residence, others ...

Only about 20% of the ocean’s depths has been mapped by humans. Here’s what we do — and don’t — know about the deep seas and why studying them is so precarious.

In Uganda, exploration spending climbed nearly tenfold—from $1.1 million in 2017 to $9.5 million in 2024—with 81 percent directed toward rare earths. Malawi saw a similar trend, with exploration ...

India's Andaman basin has the potential to hold even greater volumes of oil and gas reserves than those found in exploration hot spot Guyana, according to India’s Minister of Petroleum & Natural ...

Today the history of exploration is being rewritten to fill in old holes by people like Tara Roberts, who appeared on our March 2022 cover in her snorkel, during a dive in the Florida Keys to map ...

That’s a NASA program in which the space agency teams up with American companies to send scientific and exploration instruments to the moon. Here’s what to know about moon missions in 2025: ...

What’s out there? We don’t know for sure, but the best space exploration games let you discover alien worlds, dodge supermassive black holes, or become an interstellar trucker.

This helps support our journalism. Learn more. When it comes to exploration, however, our robots can outperform astronauts at a far lower cost and without risk to human life.

A majority of Americans (69%) say it’s essential for the U.S. to continue to be a world leader in space. As private companies become a bigger part of the industry, the public gives them more positive ...

We’ll soon be at mid-century and if we aren’t careful, opportunities for cutting-edge space exploration will have passed us by. Thus, here are five space exploration imperatives for 2030.