NASA defended the selection of two concepts for study as the agency’s first astrophysics probe-class mission amid community complaints that the two missions are not on an equal footing.

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — A NASA astrophysics mission remains on schedule to launch in April after teams went “above and beyond” to fix a problem with one component of the spacecraft that ...

Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who tracks spacecraft, confirmed that the satellite's reentry path tracked "over Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and ...

State-owned aerospace company AVIC unveiled China's first commercial uncrewed spaceplane at the country's biggest air show in Zhuhai on Tuesday, with a mission of supplying the Chinese space station.

A brilliant fireball that lit up the skies over four U.S. states this weekend is reported to be from the fiery reentry of a ...

Joining the ranks of Pennsylvania research institutions including Carnegie Melon and Lehigh University, Lycoming College ...

However, the US lunar program is delayed, in part because the spacesuits and lunar-landing vehicle are not ready. Meanwhile, ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Speakers will discuss how high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) are driving advances in ...

This physicist and self-described “plasma guy” (and former head of Argonne National Laboratory) delves into whether can ...