For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

The four crew members are closer to Luna than to our home world, right on course, and viewing parts of the Moon never before seen by humans.

The proposed budget would cut NASA's overall funding by 23% and nearly halve its science portfolio. A proposed fiscal year ...

In about 5 to 8 billion years, our sun is expected to evolve into a white dwarf—an extremely dense, Earth-sized stellar ...

An unusual team of astronomers used Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) data and observations on the Magellan telescopes at ...

Dozens gathered in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday evening to watch a historic moment unfold: the launch of the ...

Look up in April 2026 for Venus and Jupiter, the Lyrids peak, zodiacal light after the new moon, and a short window to catch ...

The number 45 matters less than what it represents: the shift from open-ended discovery to structured search, and from chance ...

Hayley Beltz was the type of kid who grew up fascinated by space and “looking up at the night sky,” but a career that used that passion outside of being an astronaut seemed light years away. Beltz ...

An icon of New Mexico, the Very Large Array (VLA)  is due for an upgrade. Now years in the making, work on the next-generation antenna is getting ready to roll ...