A brand new NASA space observatory, SPHEREx, has taken its first test images a few weeks after its launch on March 11, and ...

SpaceX’s Fram2 mission has shared the first astronaut images from a true polar orbit, revealing Earth’s remote poles.

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get a look at it anyway.

An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get a look at it anyway.

First identified in 1916 by astrophotographer Edward Emerson Barnard, Barnard’s Star has long intrigued scientists. This latest discovery sheds light on the tiny worlds circling it and raises hopes ...

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...