International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia are using advanced simulations to study electron behavior in electric propulsion ...

Issues with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield on Artemis 1 have delayed the next mission, Artemis 2. So what happened?

The first full moon of 2025 will reach peak illumination Monday at 5:27 p.m. EST, according to NASA, rising from the eastern ...

A research team at the University of Virginia is revolutionizing the future of space travel with groundbreaking studies on ...

Scientists have made groundbreaking progress in understanding the dazzling auroras that light up the night sky. Using NASA’s KiNET-X experiment, researchers simulated auroral conditions by releasing ...

The spacecraft survived scorching temperatures at a record proximity, and is expected to send details of its close call in ...

New Glenn will carry NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) mission to Mars. This mission involves two identical spacecraft, Blue and Gold, developed by Rocket Lab ...

New analysis techniques developed at NASA's Ames Research Center in California helped researchers see four long plumes of plasma emanating from the galaxy. Most galaxies don't have plumes ...

In what NASA calls a “hyper-close regime,” Parker will cut through plumes of plasma still connected to the sun and be close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, “like a surfer diving ...

NASA shuts down the Voyager 2 instrument for plasma science to extend the lifespan of the mission It was on September 26, 2023, that NASA closed the Plasma Science Experiment (PLS), one of the main ...