NASA’s new administrator has floated a striking compromise in a long running fight over where the retired shuttle Discovery should live. Instead of uprooting the orbiter from the Smithsonian, he is ...

For years, a third giant planet remained concealed within the bright dust surrounding Beta Pictoris, one of the most closely observed planetary systems in the Milky Way. NASA’s James Webb Space ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the existence of a bright galaxy that formed just 280 million years after the big bang, pushing observations deeper into the universe’s earliest period ...

Starship demonstrated key abilities on its path to becoming a fully reusable transport for astronauts to the moon ...

Scientists discovered a rare planet larger than Jupiter orbiting a distant star once every 180 days. A planet nearly five ...

Comets are known for providing breathtaking observations of their long and shiny tails when they travel too close to the Sun.