"This year's laureates show what great science can do — deepen our understanding of the world and lead to discoveries that ...

By stopping black holes from fully evaporating, hidden dimensions may solve a cosmological paradox.

Fifteen years after Western astronomers first discovered "buckyballs" in space (soccer ball-shaped molecules that resemble a ...

ISS Expedition 74 aims to boost space health and future medical breakthroughs on Earth.

The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the ...

Galaxies, including the one we call home, are within halos of dark matter. But what exactly dark matter is remains something ...

As four astronauts whiz toward a flyby of the Moon, looking out for them are mission control experts using cutting-edge technology and lessons learned from the Apollo program 50 years ago. At the ...

Five years after the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory telescope — the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope until 2016, when China completed a larger one — space physicist Qihou Zhou is ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 2019, in Titusville, Florida. Joe Raedle Getty Images/TNS The University of Texas at Arlington is ...

The Committee on Solar and Space Physics (CSSP) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in solar and space physics with the research community, the federal ...

Satellite collisions in orbit could trigger a catastrophic global chain reaction, potentially halting space exploration, ...