In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

With HiT&MiS deployed in Sweden, physics Ph.D. student Charmi Patel '24 will use it to monitor the northern lights, as seen ...

William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle ...

The space agency's planetary science analysis groups must pause while NASA checks if they comply with Trump's orders.

India’s Gaganyaan mission will send Indian astronauts to space with 20 fruit flies due to their 77% gene similarity to humans ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) Ax-4 scientific space mission with crew members Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland, left, and ...

By Katrina Miller NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry. By Robin George ...

Freeze-dried pierogi will be on the International Space Station menu for the first time when a Polish astronaut arrives with ...