The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

Sunspot AR3165 has erupted with several m-class solar flares in a span of a few hours. NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory ...

The first Illinois-led NASA mission is getting ready to take flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday, Sept. 24th. U of I's Lara Waldrop is the principal investigator for the Carruthers ...

NASA and SpaceX will launch three satellites on Wednesday to study space weather, including the solar wind, the boundary of ...

NASA is preparing to launch three innovative spacecraft to map the edge of our solar system, a mission that aims to enhance our understanding of the cosmos. The ...

Like all bureaucracies in Washington, NASA could use some streamlining—but cutting critical missions runs counter to the Trump administration’s mission to make America’s place in space great again.

American space agency NASA announced the completion of the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, described as a success.

NASA and SpaceX are now targeting 7:30 a.m., Wednesday September 24 for the launch of IMAP weather missions on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

NASA is set to launch three satellites Wednesday aimed at tracking solar storms and improving forecasts of space weather that ...

Scientists at NASA have spotted a brand-new island on Alaska's remote Alsek Lake as water rapidly replaces ice.

The NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), along with secondary payloads, is scheduled to launch aboard a Falcon 9 on Wednesday, Sept. 24, from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at the ...

This satellite will play a critical role in detecting solar storms before they reach Earth, giving scientists, satellite ...