A student team from Las Cruces won a space science challenge and could send their experiment to the ISS next year.

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...

After four rounds of layoffs in two years that cut a quarter of its employees, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory now faces a ...

Born on July 25, 1925, Dr. Chitnis was among the first generation of Indian scientists who laid the foundation for the ...

It all sounds grand and, after decades of disappointment and lost ambition in space, perhaps a little too far-fetched.

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

Reflect Orbital plans 4,000 space mirrors to reflect sunlight onto Earth, alarming scientists who warn of light pollution, ...

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

A rare encounter of two comets this week will have stargazers in awe after nearly a year of no easily seen comets.

New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, and communities.

Humanity's drive to explore has taken us across the solar system, with astronaut boots, various landers and rovers' wheels ...

A new book and documentary from James Bluemel tells the story of the space race so far in photographs, a mix of images from ...