New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...

NASA has pushed the boundaries of astronomy once again with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—the most advanced telescope ...

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...

As 3I/ATLAS approaches the sun, astronomers expect its frozen ices to sublimate, releasing gas and forming a glowing coma and tail—the signature features of a comet.

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but. The object’s trajectory revealed it to be a much rarer visitor than first ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — On Wednesday morning, the majority members of the Senate Commerce Committee voted in favor of having President Donald Trump’s nominee Jared Isaacman as NASA’s new ...