Nevada is one of very few places left in the country where there is so little artificial light the Milky Way is visible to ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope found X-ray signals from young stars outside the Milky Way for the first time. These stars are in the “Wing” of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy. The skin ...

"Everything scattered in the Andromeda system is very asymmetric and perturbed. It does appear that something significant ...

In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky stretching all the way to zenith — the point directly overhead. Directly ...

With the stresses on planet Earth in the headlines, at work and your day-to-day life, do you need a reminder that we’re just a speck on a dot in the endless vacuum of space? If so, ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, photo of the ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. ET.

New research suggests that interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua and Borisov arrive near Earth far more frequently than ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have a front-row seat to some of the most extraordinary sights in the ...

"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...

SPHEREx is set to launch at Friday from California. Here are five things to know about NASA's latest advanced space telescope ...