The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

As part of the SpaceX 31st commercial resupply mission, NASA sent the Space Entanglement and Annealing Quantum Experiment, or ...

Liftoff of the mission, which was for a "confidential commercial customer," took place at 5:56 a.m. ET on Tuesday (Nov. 5).

NASA's futuristic solar sail technology prototype is getting ready to launch to space this year. Like a sail on the ocean ...

As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for ...

In a buzzing corner of campus, a group of students is pushing the limits of student-led space innovation. The newly ...

Still Tumbling NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), a dazzling spacecraft that is designed to exclusively make use of the tiny amounts of radiation pressure exerted by sunlight for ...

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

This vehicle could help NASA learn how to harness the Sun's limitless energy to sail through the vacuum of space—if it works.

Social media buzzed last night as residents across the state reported unusual streaks of light cutting through the night sky.

A $20,000,000 spacecraft launched by NASA earlier this year is now tumbling uncontrollably through space after suffering a ...