Earth briefly hosted a 33-foot object, 2024 PT5, as a mini-moon. Scientists suggest it might be lunar debris from an ancient ...

Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will get closer to the sun than ever before. Astrophysicist Nour Rawafi explains how this mission could help solve the sun's most perplexing mysteries.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles of the sun's surface.

Humans are returning to the moon—this time, to stay. Because our presence will be more permanent, NASA has selected a ...

Space station crews spend the holidays away from family and friends, but that doesn’t stop them from celebrating in space.

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of reionization. It holds clues to the first stars and galaxies, and perhaps the nature ...

From exploring the Moon to revealing mysteries of the solar system, space agencies around the world are gearing up for an ...

JPL's Mojave Desert-based facility upgrade will enhance NASA's deep space communications capabilities for decades.

Have you looked up at the night sky this season and noticed a bright object sporting a reddish hue to the left of Orion? This ...

Since the launch of the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 in 1968, NASA has been putting telescopes ... us explore the cosmos in a unique way. These telescopes can be as close as Earth orbit or ...