NASA is canceling the AXIS X-ray space telescope mission concept, saying it failed to meet key requirements. But the project leader thinks there's another reason.

With the centennial of Robert Goddard's first liquid fuel rocket launch, his dreams, including reaching Mars, inspire today's aerospace students.

More frequent and intense winter dust events have affected Europe in recent years, according to some new research. Scientists believe that drier-than-normal conditions in northwestern Africa and more ...

NASA's upcoming astrophysics mission, AXIS, was abruptly cancelled due to alleged mismanagement and budget confusion at the ...

A century after Robert Goddard's famed rocket launch, who gets to explore space? Exploring who's breaking barriers of gender, ...

At roughly 250,000 kilometers per hour, comet 3I/ATLAS did not merely enter the inner solar system; it tore through it at a ...

Oil briefly jumps back above $100 a barrel after attacks on tankers in the Persian Gulf. Now the U.S. and its allies prepare ...

Only three confirmed interstellar objects have ever been identified passing through the solar system, which helps explain why ...

On March 16, 1926 in Auburn, Massachusetts, scientist Robert Goddard set off the first liquid fueled rocket. At the time, Goddard was ridiculed and dismissed, but over the course of the last century, ...

Webb has captured the haunting “Exposed Cranium” nebula—an otherworldly cloud shaped by a dying star that looks remarkably like a brain inside a skull.

Winter winds lofted clouds of dust from the Sahara Desert, carrying it north toward the Mediterranean and dispersing it widely across Europe in March 2026. When the dust combined with moisture-laden ...