NASA has lost contact with MAVEN, a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than 11 years and one of only three ...

One aim of the research is to help monitor the onset of Kessler syndrome — a chain reaction of collisions in space that, in ...

This video highlights the Rover Operations Center at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A center of excellence for current and ...

Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, ...

Infleqtion, a Boulder-based quantum-technology company, has named Karl Pendergast as senior vice president and general manager of its Quantum Sensing Solutions Group.

With a new imaging spectrometer from NASA, mineral deposits in the ground can be identified from an aircraft. The sensor is housed in an airplane.

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

Last year, a UCLA-led team accomplished something scientists have been trying to do for 50 years. They made radioactive thorium nuclei absorb and ...

As the research team from Penn State and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed decades of deep-space communication logs, they found patterns in how we have beamed signals into the cosmos. Their ...

What can be inferred if a comet from another star system accelerates in a manner that our models cannot fully account for? That is the question at the center of the latest storm of scientific ...

It may still be a few years off, but California State University, Northridge biology professor Rachel Mackelprang is part of ...

Irish planetary scientists have christened a spider-like feature on Jupiter's icy moon Europa as "Damhán Alla," which ...