"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...

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

Rubicon’s ASCENT chemical propulsion module, called Sprite, is being paired with Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

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 ...

Late on March 13 and on into the early hours of March 14 the moon will turn a spooky red color in the skies above the U.S.

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

On this date, Jan. 16, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its ill-fated flight on the STS-107 mission. During liftoff, a frozen chunk of foam from the external fuel tank fell off, crashing into ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

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 ...

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 ...