The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

Saturn will rise above the eastern horizon beneath the stars of the constellation Pisces shortly before midnight for viewers ...

With Trump’s new budget cutting NASA science programs, the Mars Sample Return mission could be replaced by a private-sector ...

I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a placard near the watch, though Collins remains a supporting character in one ...

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

A monster exoplanet as big as 10 times the size of Jupiter has emerged from the stellar gas and dust surrounding a young star ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in ... the history of astronomy. The New Horizons station is the first man-made object to reach Pluto. Till now, ...