For years, physicists treated an Earth-to-space quantum uplink as a beautiful idea that nature simply would not allow. Now a set of detailed models and experiments suggests that the same fragile ...

A rare magnetic phenomenon, once thought confined to the sun’s outer atmosphere, has been seen to twist its way through Earth’s magnetic frontier. For the first time, NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale ...

A study reconstructs the chemical composition of key molecules in stars by analyzing their infrared fingerprints.

Debris from moonbound spacecraft has left craters on the lunar surface since the U.S. Apollo missions. But the moon is not used to being surrounded by debris. With an expected resurgence in lunar ...

After nearly 14 years in space, NASA’s Van Allen Probe A made a fiery return to Earth on Wednesday, March 11. Weighing just over 1,300 pounds, the satellite blazed through Earth’s atmosphere and ...

Solar activity and Earth’s space environment can have deleterious effects on numerous technologies that are used by modern society. Understanding the origin of these effects is essential for the ...

Sometime next year, a new NASA instrument designed and built in Colorado will get an eagle-eye view of Earth. The instrument, known as Libera, will circle the planet from high above, scanning every ...

A recent SpaceNews opinion article argued that it is time to “take astronomy off Earth.” The suggestion is straightforward: If satellite constellations and commercial space activity threaten ...

As four astronauts whiz toward a flyby of the Moon, looking out for them are mission control experts using cutting-edge technology and lessons learned from the Apollo program 50 years ago. At the ...

From the historic Royal Institution, space doctor Kevin Fong takes us on a ride from launch to orbit and the cosmos beyond ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...