Members of the team behind NASA's newest space telescope will ring the New York Stock Exchange closing bell in New York City at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 22. The team helped build, launch, and ...

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The ...

As the Hubble Space Telescope approaches 35 years since its launch, marking over three decades of incredible images of the universe and science, NASA and its partner, the European Space Agency, are ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

An exciting finding on a distant planet should also make us thankful for anyone who is doing the long, hard work of science.

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing away from the center of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the Chandra team.

JWST discovers Zhúlóng, the earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, 800 million years after the Big Bang explosion occurred.

The halo is more extended that astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...

Discover the amazing similarities between Zhúlóng and the Milky Way, challenging our understanding of galaxy evolution.

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...