On November 18, 2013, NASA launched the MAVEN spacecraft to Mars. The name MAVEN stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile ...

More metal than ever is entering the upper atmosphere because of space traffic, with unknown effects on climate ...

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE ...

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...

Using the state-of-the-art space observatory, a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, has ...

In 2005, scientists announced that moss could grow inside of spaceships. The little plants the scientists sent up on NASA ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers have generated the first-ever weather report of a rogue ...

GOLDEN, CO — The surge in megasatellite constellations is creating problems beyond amplifying the Earth-circling space debris ...

A photo composite of exposures taken over just 30 minutes show satellites low Earth orbit lit all night by sunlight. Many of the parallel streaks heading generally horizontal west to east (right to ...

Mysterious dark matter could slosh over our planet like a wave. If it does, it may produce telltale radio waves in Earth's atmosphere, new theoretical research suggests. When you purchase through ...

On Aug. 8, 1977, the Salyut 5 space station fell out of space and burned up in Earth's atmosphere. Salyut 5 was a Soviet space station and part of the highly-secretive Almaz military space station ...

Huntsville leaders expect it will take about 5 years to fully establish Space Command headquarters and fill 1,400 positions.