Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...

Astronomers have captured a haunting image of a “cosmic bat” spreading its wings across deep space. This nebula, 10,000 light-years away, glows crimson as newborn stars ignite clouds of gas and dust.

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is ...

JUICE might be bound to Jupiter, but it is fortuitously in place to peek at this object from beyond the stars.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in ice around a young ...

NASA has selected Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen as the crew for the Artemis 2 mission. They are scheduled to launch no ...

NASA and South Korea's space agency have agreed to deeper cooperation in space exploration, science and aeronautics, including collaboration on a pioneering mission.

Placing data centers in space could pave the way for sustainable computing with unlimited solar energy and free cooling, say ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolit ...

A new project is collecting thousands of messages destined for the cosmos, coinciding with the anniversary of a landmark ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...