Space

On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New H... Read more

For six decades, a tiny group of scientists has probed the cosmos for evidence of aliens. Is this an endless quest, or c... Read more

The detection of thousands of exoplanets orbiting alien suns revolutionized our view of the cosmos—and the next generati... Read more

The Event Horizon Telescope is an experiment that is being performed on a large and ever-increasing array of radio teles... Read more

To search for life beyond Earth, we first have to decide on several key factors, such as where we should look. Several l... Read more

Our journey toward Mars and beyond will be humanity’s greatest adventure. It will determine the fate of our species and ... Read more

The NASA Kepler mission revealed that our Galaxy is teeming with planetary systems and that Earth-sized planets are comm... Read more

In only two decades, we’ve gone from the mere speculation about planets beyond our solar system (“exoplanets”) to being ... Read more

In recent decades, our ability to study the universe with telescopes detecting a range of wavelengths of light - enabled... Read more

In less than three decades, more than three thousand planets have been discovered orbiting other stars. This has sparked... Read more

It is important to know what is going on in your neighborhood, and that is also true of the immediate vicinity of our Su... Read more

Cassini’s 13 years at Saturn have made it the most spectacularly successful interplanetary mission in the history of NAS... Read more

This century will permit us the first opportunities to study biology beyond Earth; biology as we don’t yet know it, and ... Read more

To coincide with the Kepler & K2 Science Conference taking place in Mountain View, the Academy is pleased to host a ... Read more

Over the past few decades, hundreds of new planetary systems have been discovered, many of which show remarkable diversi... Read more

Twenty-six years ago, the United States and Europe joined hands and set off together on a spectacular adventure. It was ... Read more

We’ve all learned that space is an empty vacuum, but it’s not. The space between the stars in our Galaxy contains, on av... Read more

What is "dark matter?" This is a question that has preoccupied astrophysicists for many decades. Observations show that ... Read more

Our understanding of the history of the solar system has undergone a revolution in recent years, owing to new theoretica... Read more

Did a moon form Saturn's rings? Do the building blocks for life exist on Titan? Seltzer water inside Enceladus? Here are... Read more