"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon. How ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission's deployable aperture cover—a ...

The 15th day of the first month on the Chinese lunar calendar marks the Lantern Festival.The moon is full in the sky, and families are reunited on Earth. This brings the story of "the lady Chang'e ...

An anthropologist recounts how a small island nation built and deployed its first satellite—and what their effort says about ...

The 15th day of the first month on the Chinese lunar calendar marks the Lantern Festival. The moon is full in the sky, and ...

William Matthaeus, the Martin A. Pomerantz Chair of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, has won UD’s highest faculty honor — the Francis Alison Award — in recognition of his ...

This unsung research area involves 3D-printing smart materials that can change shape when they come into contact with stimuli like heat or light.

The President of the United States is not one to let material reality stand in the way of a sound-bite ready pie-in-the-sky ...