In 2015, after flying for 9 years and covering nearly 5 billion kilometers, the New Horizons spacecraft successfully flew ...

Six members of Wesleyan faculty were recognized for their outstanding research and leadership at a faculty meeting on Sept. 9 ...

President Trump’s proposed NASA budget looks to drop 41 science missions including 19 that are operational in space. The new ...

During observations of Pluto, an astonishing discovery gradually emerged—there seems to be ice volcanoes on Pluto. This ...

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in the history of astronomy. The New ...

Liquid uranium rockets could make the Red Planet a six-month commute.

The final eclipse of 2025 will unfold this weekend, but despite some of the hype online, most of the world will miss the ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

Instead of using solid fuel elements, this innovative design uses liquid uranium fuel to heat the rocket propellant directly.

Oumuamua, the first interstellar object detected in 2017, is most likely a fragment of a Pluto-like body. Scientists believe it was flung out of the solar system billions of years ago during its ...

The House committee met to discuss the commerce, justice, and science budget bill, which allocates funding to federal ...