Fifteen years after its retirement, the Space Shuttle Endeavour is set to dazzle museum spectators like never before. When ...

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

The 10 students on the Centaurus team, who have dubbed themselves “Team Centauri Stars,” will travel in August to a lab in ...

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

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun an epic decade-long mission to create "the greatest cosmic movie ever made." Here's what to know.

Multi-million-dollar investment advances scientific instrument development and supports critical milestone toward completion of one of the world's most powerful telescopes ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...