From finding the long-sought "God particle," gravitational waves and missing neutrinos from the sun to getting the first real clue for elusive dark energy, here's a look back at the greatest ...

UNITED STATES, — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the world's largest and most powerful space telescope, and Friday marked the second anniversary of the telescope's science operations. Since its ...

The space probe began making discoveries even before today's flyby. — -- Three billion miles and nearly ten years of travel led up to the moment NASA's New Horizons probe zoomed past Pluto today, ...

Every year, scientists discover something new and amazing about the universe. Some of these you'll hear about no problem, but just as many will never get enough coverage to become general knowledge.

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to a faraway planet involves lots of loop-de-loops around other planets on ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WISH) — Purdue University, which touts itself as the “Cradle of Astronauts,” on Monday announced the creation of the Neil Armstrong Space Prize, an award aimed at honoring ...

Europa Clipper will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion km) to reach Jupiter in April 2030. The spacecraft will orbit Jupiter, and conduct 49 close flybys of Europa. On each orbit, the spacecraft ...