"We are happy to confirm that we have a parachute design that can work on Mars — an ambitious system with the largest parachute ever to be flown outside Earth" ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new exoplanet ...

Photographing the sun can be an amazing experience and this guide explains how to do it in safety with a camera or telescope.

In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s ...

A rocky planet with a 24-hour orbit and an ice giant that takes five years to complete its orbit have been detected orbiting ...

Scientists found 12,000-year-old glacier ice in the Alps, revealing new details about Europe’s climate history and human ...

A smaller 60-foot-tall NASA spacecraft known as a sounding rocket launched from New Mexico to study the sun's mysterious chromosphere and its corona.

The thunder of a solid rocket booster hurtling a scientific payload to the edge of space shook the sides of buildings on White Sands Missile Range Friday. The sounding rocket carried the first space t ...

A new study suggests that recent rapid global warming may be linked to falling sulphur dioxide pollution, which has dimmed ...

NASA will launch a sounding rocket Friday, July 18 from New Mexico near the Texas border. Here's what to know about the ...

It’s certainly possible to consume water sourced from the icy rings of Saturn, but doing so safely may require extra steps ...