During Wednesday's total solar eclipse, NASA's WB-57 high-altitude aircraft will take high-resolution images for researchers ...

Both the research jet and balloons were used to collect data during the total solar eclipse in April 2024. These new projects will use what NASA learned last time to sharpen up the methods, and ...

Astronomers have found the earliest example of a black hole rapidly bulking up in the universe — and it may finally resolve a long‑running cosmic dilemma. The object appears just 660 million years ...

Hidden in the nose-cone of the WB-57 jet is a suite of four cameras that will take high-resolution images of the corona in several different wavelengths of visible and infrared light, capturing the ...

Solar sails are an exciting way to travel through the solar system because they get their propulsion from the sun. NASA has developed several solar sails, and their newest, the Advanced Composite ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Voyager 1, which has traveled further from Earth than any other ...

The four astronauts who rounded Earth’s natural satellite in April got an extremely rare view of the dark lunar disk blocking ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system. The object is a comet hailing from the direction of the constellation ...

The New Horizons spacecraft sends back its sensational snapshots of Jupiter, and its volcanic moon Io, before the mission's close encounter with Pluto (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any spacecraft in human history. After more than four decades of silent endurance through space, it now sails beyond the orbit of the outer ...