The eight ripples seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in this cosmic scene marks the most ever seen in any galaxy, and data ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

A bevy of space companies will lend a hand to NASA's moon goals under new contracts centered around the agency's upcoming ...

In 2019, the Hubble team released this image of the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula to celebrate the telescope's 29th anniversary. It is also among the most massive and luminous X-ray sources in ...

TL;DR: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has observed grains the ... Astronomers are particularly interested in HH 30 and, by extension, these new images, as they show an example of outflowing ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech In early December, the star trackers captured and transmitted Europa Clipper’s first images from deep space (see below). The composite image, made up of three snapshots, ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are venturing beyond Earth—and into space.

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even the JWST can't exactly do.

The Horsehead Nebula is a dark cloud of gas and dust, famously silhouetted against a bright emission nebula. The Witch Head Nebula’s eerie shape is formed by gas and dust interacting with star ...

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...