For now, a single satellite has been cleared for a test demonstration, but the company making it hopes to eventually launch ...

Astronomers have detected a natural sugar found in raspberries in clouds of interstellar dust and gas near the center of the ...

Bengaluru: Philanthropist Kachigere Krishnappa has donated to IISc to support student learning, space research and hands-on ...

Maintaining reliable communication during space missions is critical. Future missions—especially crewed missions to Mars—are ...

The night sky may soon acquire a switch. A California startup plans to send an enormous, steerable mirror into orbit and use it to bounce sunlight onto selected patches of Earth after sunset. On July ...

Astronomers have detected ultraviolet light from a galaxy that existed just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, a finding ...

Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries. The sugar, called erythrulose, lurks in ...

Physics and astronomy students visited Great Basin Observatory to connect classroom research with hands-on experiences in ...

The team refers to the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) as a 10-year-long movie of the universe, and they're right. The ...

Advocates say the Sacramento Mountains site could still be used for research, education and astrotourism after a mercury leak ...

The satellites that run your weather forecasts, your television, and a significant portion of global communications all ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island confirmed two-thirds — or 21 of 31 — of the most ...