How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic ...

New mathematical work provides a way to identify when information has been changed by manipulating space-time – and it may ...

That's where Johnson found the perfect place to put her extraordinary mathematical skills to work. (Photo credit: NASA.gov) As a computer, she calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first ...

WASHINGTON, May 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Universities Space Research Association's (USRA) Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science ... in collaboration with NASA. It is a novel GenAI ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. During that summer, a 14-year-old Hermie befriended a woman named Dorothy, whose husband, Pete, went off to fight in the war. One evening ...

The goals Kennedy set forth that day would become the foundation for NASA’s Apollo program, leading to Neil Armstrong’s historic first steps on the Moon in July 1969. Today, Kennedy’s words ...

Chaitén Volcano in southern Chile erupted on May 2, 2008, for the first time in 9,000 years. NASA satellites that monitor changes in vegetation near volcanoes could aid in earlier eruption warnings.

In a nail-biting mission to secure Voyager 1 before the only antenna that can send commands to the spacecraft goes offline for upgrades, NASA engineers revived thrusters aboard the probe that have ...

The Sun’s location is marked with a star symbol. Credit: NASA/SwRI NASA’s PUNCH mission just delivered its dazzling first images, including a rainbow-colored look at the solar sky. Using light ...