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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

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 ...