The two probes have left the solar system and are still collecting data from the interstellar environment—but their atomic ...

Lightning strikes in the atmosphere can trigger a rain of high-powered “killer electrons” in low-Earth orbit that form ...

In late November, Delhi’s environment minister Gopal Rai sought permission from the central government to use cloud seeding ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere ...

Since arriving at the ISS on his fourth orbital mission earlier this month, Pettit, who at 69 is NASA’s oldest active ...

NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft ...

Bill Nelson, a former senator from Florida, was selected to head NASA because of his political experience and the fact that ...

Black-and-white photographs shared by some social media users are said to show Laika, a 13-pound stray from Moscow who became ...

The CIRES-led study used ground-penetrating radar to estimate the amount of waste under the ice. The team found that the ...

Today we're looking at how the regenerative cooling channels on Space Shuttle's main combustion chamber were manufactured.

Chestnuts roasting on a rocket engine fire…. Set a the holiday mood with NASA’s Rocket Engine Fireplace. While a typical wood-burning fire heats up to about 600 degrees, an RS-25 engine burns up to 6, ...