China's space agency has opened up a first round of applications for researchers to borrow its Chang'e 6 lunar far side ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

NASA quietly sunsetted its cable channel, NASA TV, just before Labor Day this year. Honestly, it never lived up to its ...

Apophis is predicted to pass within 20,000 miles of Earth—closer than some orbiting satellites—on April 13, 2029. Researchers ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

JWST, a groundbreaking space observatory, enhances our understanding of the cosmos by studying distant galaxies, star ...

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months after its passage behind the sun at superior conjunction on June 4—Venus ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

Solar eclipses occur when the moon gets between Earth and the sun. This causes the moon to cast a shadow onto Earth. A solar ...