The bipartisan co-chairs of a congressional caucus have criticized proposed cuts in NASA’s science programs, marking the first Republican opposition in Congress to the plans.

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

High school senior Matteo Paz stunned the astronomy world by uncovering 1.5 million previously unknown cosmic objects using a ...

The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE telescope ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...

NASA says observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a surprising new twist in the study of a star believed to have engulfed a planet. The latest data suggests that instead of the ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space rocks passing by our planet over the next two days. The asteroid ...

President Donald Trump’s proposed annual budget for NASA next year would nearly cut in half the agency’s science funding, ...

When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive event, throwing out an explosion of heat and light — but it can create stunning new forms as well. A gorgeous new ...