By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...

For their experiment, the researchers collected satellite navigation signals from millions of Android phones around the world ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

Why haven’t humans colonized other planets yet?  While we dream of expanding across the solar system, there are hidden and ...

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The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...

After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off.

Our Solar System is plunging into chaos. Better hang on tight. The planets are getting knocked out of orbit. What could ...

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover captured just such an event back in February—and it managed to photograph another eclipse ...