Harmful cuts” jeopardize the agency’s mission, more than 280 current and former personnel contend in a scathing dissent.

In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

“We’re going back to the moon, on to Mars, and beyond ... the only mission near Jupiter; and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. It would also end the UCF-led GOLD atmospheric science mission that launched ...

To do otherwise would be to cede U.S. leadership in space and science to China and other nations.” In so many words, all living former leaders of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate issued a remarkable ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched on July 23, 1999 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. See 25 'never-before-seen' images ...

The pontiff was accompanied by astronomers and students participating in the traditional summer school organized by the ...

A Senate spending bill would restore funding for dozens of NASA science missions threatened with cancellation in the ...

The punishing radiation appears to be causing the planet to shed its atmosphere at a rate of at least 1 trillion grams per second, according to a new study involving NASA 's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

The young moon leaves the sky dark for skywatchers to see Mercury next to our lunar companion on June 27.

The first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 undiscovered asteroids taken in just 10 hours.