Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and shape were not what scientists expected.

See the brilliant planet before dawn, low in the eastern sky before dawn and brighter than anything else in the sky, save the Sun and Moon.

Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...

The U.S. is in the midst of a second Space Race, and NASA is in a time crunch. How can it keep ambitions for the Moon and ...

Jupiter still rules the early-evening skies, standing prominently in Taurus in the west as darkness falls. Located between the two horns of Taurus the Bull and above its red giant eye, Aldebaran ...

Looking like a bird ready to take flight from atop a post, this dusty filament within the Eagle Nebula was recently captured in intricate detail by the Hubble Space Telescope. Also known as M16 ...

Be careful out there, astronomers: There could be a dark galaxy in our midst. In research published today in Science Advances, researchers from the Chinese National Academy of Sciences discovered ...

NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission launched March 12, sending up a constellation of four Earth-orbiting satellites with the goal of studying how the Sun’s ...

The shining Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83) in Hydra checks almost every box an amateur astronomer could desire.