The James Webb Space Telescope is up and running, and UChicago faculty are celebrating.

Kenneth Sembach, AB’88, leads the mission to find the universe’s first light.

The Parker Solar Probe by the numbers.

Justin Kasper, AB’99, once built a working nuclear reactor for Scav. Now he’s built an equally impossible instrument for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.

Reatha Clark King, SM’60, PhD’63, was one of the less hidden figures in the space race.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe gets ready to meet a star.

Planetary scientists fact-check The Martian.

Hall of fame astronaut John Grunsfeld, SM’84, PhD’88, recalls how the University of Chicago trained him for NASA.

The blockbuster cosmic inflation discovery faces a “sledgehammer” of scrutiny.