NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer was developed as part of the astrophysics Small Explorer (SMEX) program. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA is delaying the next competition for an astrophysics ...

NASA is gearing up to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope this summer, sending the spacecraft 1 million miles from ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope completed final assembly in late November 2025 with a launch as soon as the fall of 2026. Credit: NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya GREENBELT, Md. — The head of NASA’s ...

New Delhi: NASA’s latest mission, the first-ever “sounding rocket” to space, has brought scientists closer to decoding the sun’s solar flares, eruptions, geomagnetic storms and other space weather ...

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (NASDAQ:RKLB) announced on Wednesday that it has been chosen by NASA to launch its Aspera mission. Aspera is an astrophysics science mission designed to study the formation and ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has been selected by ...

NASA has published its 30-year plan for astrophysics, and its first priority is to look for habitable planets and life on other worlds. It will also focus on learning more about the origins of life ...

For centuries, humanity has looked to the stars and wondered, if intelligent life exists elsewhere, why haven’t they reached out? Now, a NASA astrophysicist believes the answer might be far simpler ...