At an internal staff briefing last week, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy declared the United States has a "manifest ...

A fascinating experiment puts flies in a vacuum chamber to explore how they might behave in the conditions of outer space.

The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is being launched later this month to study the outer reaches of the heliosphere which defines where our solar system ends and interstellar space ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

Instead of using solid fuel elements, this innovative design uses liquid uranium fuel to heat the rocket propellant directly.

The lead author, Sylvia Protopapa, a chief scientist at the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI), explained that methane dominates Makemake's frozen surface and is now also found in the gas phase above ...

Floods are among the deadliest disasters, impacting billions worldwide. But countries are responding with powerful ...

Uranus's moons — what is unique about each moon and why do they orbit at a tilt?

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe.

For years, astronomers believed that Makemake, one of the brightest icy bodies beyond Neptune, was a frozen relic of the ...

White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life. The Sun will eventually die. This will occur when it exhausts the hydrogen ...

A Curious Mind, the latest in a series of anthologies devoted to the producer’s work. The three-CD collection contains 82 selections, most of them written by Meek and many of them performed by him, in ...