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

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

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 ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE mission, to make infrared observations. This was the latest in a line of space-based, infrared observatories, and it cost about ...

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

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 ...

According to the "passback" documents given to NASA officials on Thursday, the space agency's science programs would receive ...