The Space Weather Follow On — Lagrange 1 executed its final engine burn Jan. 23 to reach its destination roughly 1.6 million ...

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

NASA completes assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The observatory will enter final testing before launch, providing infrared surveys and cosmic data for astronomy research.

Our planet is surrounded by a halo of ultraviolet light invisible to the naked eye, a celestial phenomenon that scientists have been trying to understand for over half a century. This enigmatic glow, ...

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

Scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), tucked away in the piney woods of Livingston Parish, feared their operation detecting black holes would be shuttered after ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a ...

A notional concept for NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory, a large space telescope proposed to launch as soon as the early 2040s. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy are spearheading one of the ...