Right now, somewhere above our heads, missions are being planned that could redefine humanity's place in space. The decisions being made today about where to send our next wave of spacecraft and ...

Two research teams at the University of Colorado Boulder are working on separate projects that could protect astronauts in space, as well as human health here on Earth.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We learn more and more about our universe all the time, but there’s recently been a huge spike in stunning cosmic observations. An ...

After years of investments, African telescopes are emerging as global leaders in frontier astronomy. From South Africa’s MeerKAT capturing the universe’s most distant gigamaser to Ghana’s radio ...

(Phys.org) —NASA has announced its intention to add legs to the Robonaut 2 (R2) robot currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS), sometime next year. The move is part of a 50 year project ...

Kate Rubins, director of the Trivedi Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, in space in 2020 (Courtesy NASA) A new $25 million institute at the University of Pittsburgh is aiming to bring space ...