As four astronauts whiz toward a flyby of the Moon, looking out for them are mission control experts using cutting-edge ...

Five years after the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory telescope — the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope until 2016, when China completed a larger one — space physicist Qihou Zhou is ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 2019, in Titusville, Florida. Joe Raedle Getty Images/TNS The University of Texas at Arlington is ...

Space weather has matured from a niche concern to a central pillar of space exploration, national security, and scientific inquiry. In addition to its natural 11-year cycle of rising and falling ...

For decades, Saturn has been playing a strange trick on scientists. Depending on how ...

UPDATE: IMAP successfully launched around 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a scientific instrument from Colorado is scheduled to launch into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space ...

Quantum physics is quietly rewriting the rulebook for how far and how fast humanity might travel beyond Earth. A cluster of recent breakthroughs points to a future in which exotic states of matter, ...

The Committee on Solar and Space Physics (CSSP) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in solar and space physics with the research community, the federal ...

Today's encryption works well, until tomorrow's quantum computers arrive. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, ...

Two research teams at the University of Colorado Boulder are working on separate projects that could protect astronauts in space, as well as human health here on Earth.

The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, a Princeton-led NASA mission to study the Sun and everything it touches, has officially begun its science mission. Princeton marked the occasion with a ...