The University of Iowa is stepping into the future of space research with new high-tech labs designed to test satellites, ...

A new Space Warps project lets the public hunt for gravitational lenses in data from the Euclid Space Telescope.

Understanding the universe as a whole requires simulations on cosmic scales. An international team of astrophysicists, with a ...

It takes a moment for the eyes to adjust. A faint spark appears in the darkness; then another, brighter one. Soon, stars, ...

SkyMapper functions as an observational infrastructure, a system that links instruments, users, and data streams. Its goal is ...

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh has marked a milestone with the placement of its first modular home, launching construction of the “Bill and Mary Murphy Founder’s House” on Gail Place. … A ...

BOISE, Idaho — Five years ago, Grant Chapman was just another student walking the halls at Centennial High School. Today, he’s helping NASA test space equipment designed to send astronauts back to the ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are concerned with spreading the net wider — or getting more helping hands on ...

In 1958, a newly minted Harvard Ph. D. named Frank Drake came to Green Bank. Usually he sought out typical radio astronomy targets — the Van Allen Belts around Earth, say, or the surface temperature ...