Plus, the Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of Dec. 13-14, and the winter solstice arrives Dec. 21 at 10:03 a.m.

Nasa has released new images of 3I/ATLAS, a stray comet from another world that people either think is an alien spacecraft or ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

As humans set their sights on living beyond Earth, one surprising challenge is emerging: how do we grow healthy crops in the uncharted environment of space? Purdue University researchers, in ...

The human desire to explore the moon continues to shape our history, and soon, it will take a giant leap forward with NASA's Artemis II mission, which has a launch window that opens in February 2026.

NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland wants to remedy that by leading the search for the perfect small, portable X-ray machine to fly into space. Three NE Ohio organizations — NASA, Cuyahoga ...

NASA has awarded a contract to execute a high-stakes orbital maneuver, racing against time and atmospheric drag to prevent a critical science asset from tumbling back to Earth. The target of this ...

Since the Highland Project began this polling in 2021, dissatisfaction with the country's direction has increased by 52% among this voting bloc. A new poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Black ...

University of Illinois graduate students Jane Du and Bakshree Mishra watch as NASA counts down toward the launch of three space weather satellites, including the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, on ...

The Sun — usually so predictable — is exhibiting some surprising behavior and that has scientists very intrigued. Astronomers had predicted that our host star was entering a period of relative quiet ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has restored contact with one of a pair of space science satellites that ran into problems shortly after its July launch. In a Sept. 11 statement, NASA said it reconnected with SV1, ...

Lockheed Martin's concept for a fission surface power (FSP) system on the surface of the moon. Credit: Lockheed Martin WASHINGTON — NASA is moving ahead with plans to support development of a lunar ...