NASA's Pandora smallsat mission, launched on a Falcon 9 rideshare mission Jan. 11, will study exoplanet atmospheres. Credit: NASA GSFC/Conceptual Image Lab WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — NASA awarded a launch contract to SpaceX July 8 for the launch of a small astrophysics mission as the company offered a Falcon 9 at a lower price than a much smaller rocket. NASA ...

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory could reenter in late 2026 without a reboost mission. PHOENIX — As preparations continue for a mission to raise the orbit of NASA’s Swift astrophysics spacecraft, ...

Rochester Institute of Technology graduate student Chi Nguyen was selected for a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship in Astrophysics Research. Nguyen, originally from Vietnam, is a Ph.D. student ...

NASA has published its 30-year plan for astrophysics, and its first priority is to look for habitable planets and life on other worlds. It will also focus on learning more about the origins of life ...

The goal of NASA’s Universe of Learning (UoL) is to connect the public to the data, discoveries, and experts that span NASA’s ...