NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Laurie Leshin discussed various outer space endeavors in an earth and planetary ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

SPHEREx begins mapping the sky in infrared, exploring the universe’s origins and life’s building blocks across the Milky Way.

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped ...

NASA is tracking two bus-sized asteroids in the vicinity of the Earth that are whizzing through space at some 11,000 to ...

Cornell researchers are collecting data ahead of the anticipated launch of a NASA satellite that will provide advance notice ...

A new space telescope is mapping the sky in 102 colors — and it may just rewrite our understanding of the universe.

ELVIS, a new holographic microscope developed at Portland State University, could help advance efforts to look for life on ...

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new ...

A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground.