A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.

SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 20 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at ...

A dwarf planet hiding right in the middle of our solar system could be a surprising source of frozen water, astronomers ...

NASA: America’s space agency needs you. According to a NASA press release, the organization is looking for people to suggest innovations on how to recycle waste on deep space missions in its ...

To cheers and applause from kids wearing spacesuits and star-studded T-shirts, a tree was planted in California that is out ...

Researchers using NASA and ESA spacecraft have uncovered how magnetic switchbacks near the Sun energize the solar wind, ...

In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have traveled to distant locations — Antarctica and its ice sheets, Chile and ...

Stargazers hoping to see the Orionid meteor shower light up the sky next week may be disappointed this year, due to the ...

Taking advantage of our natural setting, we use field-oriented and laboratory-supported inquiry to explore problems in all facets of earth science. Middlebury College students engage with our faculty ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

In 1995, Caltech researchers at the Institute’s Palomar Observatory first observed what appeared to be a brown dwarf orbiting Gliese 229 – a red dwarf star located about 19 light-years from Earth.

NASA and its international partners are launching scientific investigations on SpaceX’s 31st commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station including studies of solar wind, a ...