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 ...

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

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 ...

In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.

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

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

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

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

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

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...