In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX ...

The Trump administration has proposed cancelling more than 40 NASA missions, including at least 14 Earth science missions.

Twenty percent of NASA's 2025 astronaut candidates are Purdue University graduates, adding to the university's legacy as the ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

Two Purdue alumni, including an Indiana native, have officially joined NASA’s 2025 class of astronaut candidates. Yuri Kubo, ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

Kate Mara plays a NASA astronaut who realizes she may have brought an alien stowaway back with her.

The class will undergo nearly two years of training before being eligible for space flight assignments to the International ...

How many planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, exist throughout the Milky Way Galaxy? While that might never be determined, NASA recently | Space ...