James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...

As a rocket revolution sets the stage for astronauts to explore Mars, advances in bioengineering could help them survive the ...

January’s full moon, known as the “Wolf Moon,” will be visible through Saturday as the first full moon of 2026.

Astronomers have obtained remarkably detailed images of two stellar explosions -- called novae -- just days after they began.

The state-of-the-art data sonification system translates pixels of celestial objects into sounds, thereby composing melodious classical symphonies.

The Quadrantid meteor shower will peak overnight between Jan. 2 and Jan. 3, offering a brief but intense burst of meteors.

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

People around the world will witness one of the first supermoons of 2026 when the ‘Wolf Supermoon’ rises in the skies. But ...

SpaceX's much more ambitious Starship rocket got most of the headlines for, well, exploding. But while it was busy falling ...

Humanity’s next great expansion is no longer a thought experiment. It is unfolding in real time in orbit, around the Moon and ...

"How do you get to Mars when the launch vehicle is not necessarily going to Mars?" ...

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which has orbited Mars since 2014, went quiet abruptly in early December. Efforts to reestablish a ...