A robotic space mission is scheduled for launch later this month to study what’s known as space weather, and the University of Iowa is the lead institution on the near-$166-million project, called ...
A pair of space probes cruising the solar system may be able to pass through the tail of the mysterious Manhattan-sized comet ...
A NASA-backed planetary defense group has reportedly begun efforts to pinpoint comet 3I/ATLAS after it was observed emitting ...
Lara Waldrop, professor in Engineering, will lead the first National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission directed by a University researcher. The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will launch ...
NASA has confirmed that a spacecraft launched for a moon mission has gone missing shortly after leaving Earth. The space agency said contact with the craft was lost, and efforts are underway to ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured images of the sun 3.8 million miles away. Images collected by the probe include some of the sun’s outer atmosphere. The images are helping scientists figure out the ...
On Wednesday, the space companies owned by two of the richest people on Earth — Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin — submitted ideas to the space agency for a faster program to land ...