International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

Astronomers have captured a groundbreaking phenomenon at the brink of a supermassive black hole located at the heart of ...

Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia are using advanced simulations to study electron behavior in electric propulsion ...

A research team at the University of Virginia is revolutionizing the future of space travel with groundbreaking studies on ...

New analysis techniques developed at NASA's Ames Research Center in California helped researchers see four long plumes of plasma emanating from the galaxy. Most galaxies don't have plumes ...

cutting through plumes of plasma while circling it on Tuesday morning, the space agency said in a statement. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe “is in good health and operating normally” ahead of its ...

Scientists have made groundbreaking progress in understanding the dazzling auroras that light up the night sky. Using NASA’s KiNET-X experiment, researchers simulated auroral conditions by releasing ...

NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history ... and how coronal mass ejections — massive clouds of plasma that hurl through space are formed. The Christmas Eve flyby is the first of ...

NASA researchers have discovered a perplexing ... Using the new methods, astronomers at Ames unexpectedly found four long plumes of plasma—hot, charged gas—emanating from NGC 5084.

To do so, it will have to cut through massive plumes of plasma, according to a NASA statement. The spacecraft, which is the fastest object ever built on Earth, will be lost during the mission.