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 ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.