A large cloud of tiny fragments revolves around Earth following satellite explosions, rocket stage malfunctions, and ...

McComas, a professor of astrophysical sciences and associated faculty in mechanical and aerospace engineering, is the ...

NASA and China are locked in an unprecedented competition to achieve humanity's first rocket launch from another planet's ...

The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 ...

Live updates from the Starlink 10-27 mission, which launched 6:53 a.m. Sept. 21. from Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

"The results reported here can be crucial when down-selecting which samples, if not all, are returned to Earth." ...

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

Of the many roads leading to successful Artemis missions, one is paved with high-tech computing chips called superchips.

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

Three missions aimed at observing space weather are set to launch Sept. 23 from Florida. Here's what to know about NASA's ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...

The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is the first mission focused on studying changes in the exosphere, the Earth’s outermost ...