On Nov. 13, the California Science Center's Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will open to visitors as the final phase of ...

Science fans will soon get the chance to see the Space Shuttle Endeavor in its ready-to-launch position at the California ...

At its current solar maximum, our Sun has been pretty busy of late, flinging parts of itself at Earth and raising concerns about effects on satellites and power grids while also gracing us with ...

Penn State’s strength in space science comes from the depth of our long-standing scientific leadership and the breadth of ...

Groundbreaking advances in solar and space physics have provided key insights into the inner workings of the heliosphere, the vast protective bubble formed by the solar wind that extends from the Sun ...

Celebrating America's 250th birthday, Space.com looks back at what our understanding of space was like in 1776 and what major ...

What would happen if you threw a paper airplane from the International Space Station? It’s just the sort of idea that might ...

Cleaning a space toilet while on work experience was Claire Parfitt's first introduction to a career away from Earth's orbit.

Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle describes one of the most intriguing features of quantum physics: certain pairs of physical quantities describing a particle, such as position and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly artificial neural networks, have proved to be highly promising tools for uncovering patterns in large amounts of data that would otherwise be ...

Calling all budding environmentalists, space enthusiasts, and Earth-bound innovators! Science Friday is excited to offer our Down To Earth program—a free educational experience designed to ignite a ...

Congress established committees on space exploration in 1958, in response to the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik in October 1957. Both Senate and House committees held hearings on the creation of ...