Just over 50 years ago, paleontologist Donald Johnson unearthed the remains of "Lucy," an ancient human relative who lived more than 3 million years ago. Now, another group of scientists have found ...

NASA's global Deep Space Network ensures that communication with the spacecraft and probes is successful, no matter where ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with modern tools but following the original approach, even receiving inputs from ...

Extreme wildfire is a driverless car. And it veered close to a major NASA center.

A new analysis of Voyager 2’s flyby of Uranus in 1986 reveals a unique magnetic anomaly caused by a rare solar wind event. Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech found that ...

NASA hadn’t expected Voyager 1 to continue working much after its Saturn encounter. But it continued sending data back to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. This gave ...

Scientists have discovered that deep trenches on Uranus’ moon Ariel might be pathways for material from its interior to reach ...

The idea of a lightsail comes from the fact that radiation pressure represents a mechanical pressure acting on a surface due ...