The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been at the forefront of astronomical observation, and with the upcoming China Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST), scientists continue to ...

The Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) isn’t a new idea. Conceived in the early 2000s, the project aimed to deliver ...

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 ...

Would the next giant leap to the Moon be delayed not by a technical glitch, but by a Washington budget stalemate? With time running out to the close of the fiscal year, NASA is facing the increasing ...

M87* is a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 55 million light-years away with a mass around 6.5 billion times the mass of ...

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space ...

Kevin France, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses the Habitable Worlds Observatory, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a clear panorama of Mars' Gale Crater in August, during the Martian winter when dust levels tend to be at their lowest. Curiosity’s mission continues to study whether ...

Six members of Wesleyan faculty were recognized for their outstanding research and leadership at a faculty meeting on Sept. 9 ...

Fleet Satellite Communications System (FLTSATCOM) lab has advanced student knowledge in satellite design, engineering and operations. Once a vanguard of the institution’s spacecraft design and ...

When most people imagine the vastness of space, they picture a dark void with plenty of observable objects. Planets, stars, and other galaxies often come to mind when picturing what space actually ...