In just 15 minutes, your class will transform everyday household items into a functional scientific instrument, connecting history directly with practical physics. To begin this exciting astronomy ...

Working for months with staff members in the Department of Physics, a group of students and faculty from Brown and RISD ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is an audacious expression of human curiosity. Since its launch in 1990, it has done much more than just expand humanity’s scientific reach: it has changed how people see ...

China is developing a space-ground integrated monitoring network for planetary defence. This system will combine ground ...

Here’s how to see the year’s most-intense meteor shower, a blood-red lunar eclipse and Saturn’s refreshed rings this summer.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant known nuclear disk inside a galaxy, revealing that complex galaxy structures ...

Because there aren't enough atoms in space for sound waves to vibrate, most of the galaxy is believed to be silent. So in ...

NASA’s Swift space telescope is reaching the end of its two-decade run in orbit – unless a satellite launched on 3 July can ...

NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The salvage effort gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver ...

Giant asteroid 1997 NC1, possibly up to a mile wide, will safely pass Earth this weekend, with live online streams on Friday, June 26 and Saturday, June 27.

Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is designed to capture and boost NASA's Swift observatory back to a safe altitude.