Southwest Research Institute could lose more than $265 million if the cuts go through, including defunding missions already ...

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

The big question is: what exactly did New Horizons spot and discover as it flew through the Pluto System? Today, in the space world, let’s uncover Pluto’s secrets. Pluto was the last of the “classic” ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Akatsuki mission orbiting Venus was declared dead last week after engineers spent more than a year trying to get in touch with the sile ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

NASA hopes to announce a revival of its plans to send a spacecraft to Pluto in 2004. The turnaround may be confirmed as early as this week. In a rapid reversal of its September decision to cancel the ...

"The Sun sends out a constant flow of charged particles called the solar wind, which ultimately travels past all the planets to some three times the distance to Pluto before being impeded by the ...

The nickname comes from this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, when beavers would prepare for winter and trappers once ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending a mission to one would undoubtedly yield a scientific payoff. There’s a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spacecraft is located 5 degrees below the Pleiades star. As the month wears on, it travels ...

Discover the positions of NASA's five renowned spacecraft, including the James Webb Space Telescope, in the October night sky ...