NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

The mission is a pair of twin satellites that will study how earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the supersonic ...

Wadhwa will be the 12th head of the institution, replacing Margaret Leinen, who has served as vice chancellor, director and dean since 2013. Leinen, who announced she was stepping down from the role ...

Wadhwa to join as 12th Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in October 2025 Meenakshi Wadhwa will ...

The Perseids, considered by astronomers to be the best meteor shower of the year, are about to begin. The meteor shower occurs annually from about July 17 to Aug. 23, typically peaking in mid-August, ...

After nearly a year of trying to fix the ill-fated spacecraft, NASA says Starliner is set for a cargo mission in 2026.

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin announced its next launch of the New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral will be for a ...

NASA is planning to launch NISAR, a new first-of-its-kind satellite into space that will observe all of Earth’s land and ...

The best time to view the Perseids is between midnight and dawn, according to Hankey. However, one of the best days to see the Perseids is on Wednesday, July 30, because two other meteor showers, ...

As a young NASA scientist during the Apollo era, William Borucki helped design the heat shield that brought Apollo 11 ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

NASA and the University of Colorado Boulder will launch a 60-foot rocket out of New Mexico on Friday, which, once launched, ...