Globular clusters like NGC 1786 are tightly packed groups of stars, often containing hundreds of thousands of stars bound ...

Test your knowledge of iconic U.S. astronauts and their historic space missions. This quiz covers pioneering achievements, ...

The departures are playing out as NASA and other government agencies contend with significant cuts to funding and personnel.

On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, ...

On July 22, Earth will complete its daily rotation 1.34 milliseconds faster than the standard 24 hours, marking it one of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), in collaboration with the ground-based Keck II telescope, has for the first time ...

While US President Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' secures funding for Artemis, Nasa’s flagship Moon exploration programme, the White House spending plan slashes the budget for the agency’s Earth ...

NASA has revealed that one of the cameras on the Juno craft it sent to Jupiter malfunctioned, and that it fixed it with some ...

Observing this distant epoch is notoriously difficult, astronomers say. At that time, the universe was filled with a dense ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are painting a new picture of Jupiter's moon Europa and revealing the hidden chemistry of the icy moon's interior.

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