When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft approached Ceres, the team expected dust, craters, and silence. Instead, the dwarf planet revealed blinding bright spots, deep fractures, and strange chemical signatures ...

SpaceX is planning to launch its Falcon 9 rocket for the first time in December from the Vandenberg Space Force Base. Here's where to see it in Arizona.

Understanding the moon’s seismic activity is critical to the success or failure of future lunar missions. Lunar seismic ...

A quiet NASA mission rewrote what we know about the asteroid belt. Dawn visited Vesta and Ceres two time-capsule worlds revealing a layered, metal-cored Vesta and an icy Ceres with bright salt ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

SpaceX will launch another rocket just three days after its last mission from California. Will the Falcon 9 be visible over ...

Californians may spot a Falcon 9 rocket launch the day before (or after) Thanksgiving as SpaceX attempts a rideshare mission ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn liftoff marked the 95th orbital rocket launch of 2025 from Florida's Space Coast, extending the ongoing annual record.

Join Princeton Geosciences' alumnus and NASA filmmaker James Tralie ’19 for this special screening and Q&A session. Cosmic Dawn is the incredible true story of the James Webb Space Telescope – ...

China conducted an urgent unmanned spacecraft launch on Tuesday, after damage to a previous mission’s return capsule left the crew on its space station without a means of getting back to Earth. The ...

On 23 November, skywatchers were stunned as Saturn looked strangely bare in the night sky, a rare cosmic moment that made its ...