In February 1979, scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepared for the exploration of Jupiter and ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and shape were not what scientists expected.

UCSB Physics Professor Roger Freedman held our attention three years ago as he explained the wonders and understanding that ...

Large hailstones made of ammonia may explain why the gas is missing from large pockets of Jupiter's atmosphere.

Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says 329,000 mph fusion rocket promises to be fast, disruptive and enable deep-space ...

MPH fusion rocket to Pluto in 4 years? Sunbird's tech is poised to disrupt space travel, opening up future deep-space ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has resumed normal operations after entering safe mode twice during its 71st close approach to Jupiter on April 4.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...