New measurements have revealed that Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — is actually smaller and more flattened ...

Naval Postgraduate School students participate in the last class ever to operate FLTSATCOM. For more than 30 years, it has ...

SOLAR flares can knock out satellites, kill GPS navigation, trigger power blackouts, and irradiate astronauts. A single major solar storm could cost the global economy $2.4 trillion over five years.

A sample obtained by NASA's Perseverance rover of reddish rock formed billions of years ago from sediment on the bottom of a lake contains potential signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. Acting ...

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...

Johnson Space Center—and the private companies that rely on its business—needs a little help from Congress to remain the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a massive outflow of hot gases from a large star. This stellar jet spans 8 ...

If the explosion of a PBH were observed, scientists “would also get a definitive record of every particle that makes up ...

On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...

This is a challenging mission for a number of reasons, beginning with getting down to the surface. Because Titan has a thick ...

Back in 2019, a consortium of scientists predicted August 2025 as the peak of the solar activity cycle. But where are we now?