The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...
Cosmic dust—the tiny particles that help form stars, planets and the chemical building blocks of life—might be much spongier ...
Missions to the moon and Mars pose nutritional challenges for astronauts. Now, a new paper on space-grown food poses ...
Lettuce grown in space contains 29-31% less calcium and 25% less magnesium than Earth crops, creating serious health risks ...
Space may be the best thing since sliced bread, but it has shortcomings. For example, you might think it's crumby that you ...
IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...
A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), its beautiful images highlighting the intensity ...
At the edge of the heliosphere, the solar wind runs up against the interstellar medium, the gas, dust, and radiation in the ...
Steven Collicott, a Purdue professor of aeronautics and astronautics, will head the mission, called "Purdue 1." ...
The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...
Astrophysicist David McComas is leading a new SpaceX mission to the point between Earth and the sun, where scientists hope to study the boundary of the heliosphere.