In the recently signed "Big Beautiful Bill," $85 million dollars has been allocated to move Space Shuttle Discovery from The ...

NASA’s DART images reveal binary asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos exchanging dust and debris, offering new insight into how ...

Humans were not designed for space. Ironically, because we insist on going there anyway, scientists now know from studying astronauts that the lack of Earth’s gravity can wreak health havoc, such as ...

It's been about eight months since the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) saw first light. Now the telescope is scanning the night sky to detect transient changes and sending alerts to astronomers and ...

A groundbreaking find reveals a super-Earth, GJ 251c, just 18 light-years away, potentially in the habitable Goldilocks zone. With a mass four times that of Earth, this planet offers a rare ...

The Van Allen probe's mission was meant to last two years, but ended up going for nearly seven.

The space-based telescopes Hubble and Euclid combined forces to capture the vibrant remains of a dying star in stunning new ...

The Rubin Observatory issues rapid alerts for changing celestial objects, enabling global scientists to detect supernovae, asteroids, and variable stars within minutes of observation.

Cornell students reflect on the Artemis program seeking to return astronauts to the Moon and establish a sustained scientific presence there.

A rapidly brightening burst of light called AT 2024wpp, or "the Whippet", is baffling astronomers. One explanation is that it ...

The star astrophysicist sat down with Newsweek to discuss Mars missions and what truly drives human discovery.

Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and particles, including a ...