For space fans, June has something extra to enjoy, as NASA recently released “Cosmic Dawn,” a new “intimate access” documentary all about designing and assembling the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA's Curiosity rover drills into Mars' surface again, revealing ancient mudstone that hints the Red Planet once had water—and maybe even life.

NASA's GOLD mission made a surprising discovery. It observed X-shaped patterns in the ionosphere. These patterns occurred ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...

NASA shares first sun pole images as a Friday solar storm could bring northern lights, highlighting new space weather discoveries.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected powerful black hole jets emanating from a galaxy 11.6 billion light-years away.

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

This is the first time an object in its class has been detected in X-rays. The discovery could lead to a better understanding ...

Discover the legacy of NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO), a modified C-141A Starlifter that advanced infrared ...