"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

Dive into a celestial masterpiece with the Hubble Space Telescope's latest snapshot of the Large Magellanic Cloud, showcasing ...

Time-lapse of Space Shuttle Endeavour stacked with an external tank and pair of solid rocket boosters for a exhibit at the ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

NASA's TES-22 CubeSat launched with tech that speeds up satellite deorbiting to clear space debris. It carries technology to ...

New measurements show that the expansion rate of the universe is faster than can be explained by our current understanding of ...

Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

NASA has released this photomosaic in two images that can be downloaded from its website: ...