NASA has paused operations of the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) aboard the International Space Station ...

NASA's NICER telescope halts its mission after a key motor fails; engineers attempt to salvage eight years of space science.

Shenzhou 21 is carrying commander Zhang Lu, 48, a veteran of the 2022 Shenzhou 15 mission, and two rookie astronauts, Wu Fei ...

The Richard F Caris Mirror Lab in Tucson is actually attached to the UA football stadium, with some parts being below seats ...

NASA joins the Roman space telescope and key instruments, marking a milestone toward its 2027 launch to reveal the cosmos.

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

Jacob Payne, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, landed a NASA grant to build a small X-ray telescope that can assist with deep ...

According to NASA, the International Space Station makes one complete revolution around Earth every 90 minutes. It does this by moving at five miles per second, or 17,000 mph. That's so fast that the ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during November 2025 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

University of Iowa graduate research assistant Jacob Payne uses nitrogen to dry off a mirror at Van Allen Hall in Iowa City on Friday. Payne — with guidance from UI Physics and Astronomy Associate ...