Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the boundary of our solar system.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has shattered a historic space exploration record, traveling farther across another world than any ...

Tiny samples from asteroid Bennu are rewriting scientists' understanding of how our Solar System formed. New evidence suggests that Bennu was born where material from the inner and outer Solar System ...

On Sept. 28, the spacecraft began to use its propulsion system nearly continuously, pausing just once each week to check in ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could help researchers explore dark energy, find planets beyond our solar system and map distant ...

You can be moving at extraordinary speed and still feel completely stationary. The reason comes down to the difference between velocity and the changes in motion your body can actually detect.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – the space agency’s newest orbital observatory – promises unprecedented wide-angle views of the cosmos, including distant galaxies, black holes and planets ...

Using continuous imagery from NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, scientists predicted the near-Earth arrival of a solar eruption to within 30 minutes in an initial ...

The $4 billion observatory is on a million-mile journey to an orbit beyond the moon. Its five-year mission is to study dark matter and hunt for habitable worlds outside our solar system. The telescope ...

In 2020, a NASA spacecraft swooped in on Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and scooped up rock and dirt from its surface then began the voyage home in May 2021. The spacecraft will eject a capsule full of ...

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The University of Scranton has been awarded nearly $5.5 million from NASA to lead a nationwide project that will bring space ...