The James Webb Space Telescope is a collaborative effort between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits around the Earth, Webb ...

Space is getting crowded — humans have now placed over 20,000 satellites into orbit since the start of the space age, and ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore are returning to Earth after their extended stay at the International Space Station, but what ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth block the Sun from an unexplored location on the Moon, but the lander fell ...

How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

The HR 8799 system, 130 light years from Earth, is only 30 million years old -- just a baby compared to our solar system's 4.6 billion years.

A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...

New James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images show the first carbon dioxide-containing planet discovered outside of Earth’s ...