The Hubble is a “glowing success story of America’s technological prowess”, says NASA. Among its long list of breakthroughs, Hubble’s deep field observations in 1995 captured roughly 3,000 distant ...

NASA's Curiosity rover drills into Mars' surface again, revealing ancient mudstone that hints the Red Planet once had water—and maybe even life.

Bright flashes of enigmatic radio waves have helped illuminate some of the missing matter in the universe, astronomers say in ...

Do we really want to cut universities' federal funding and end a century of American dominance in science and technology?

For space fans, June has something extra to enjoy, as NASA recently released “Cosmic Dawn,” a new “intimate access” documentary all about designing and assembling the James Webb Space Telescope.

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

NASA’s latest discovery in the heart of our galaxy is raising more questions than answers. For the first time, a mysterious ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected powerful black hole jets emanating from a galaxy 11.6 billion light-years away.

This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

An accidental discovery in an astronomy show offers researchers a new clue about the mysterious Oort Cloud, a large expanse ...

The remarkable strides made by the UAE and other regional nations in space today can be traced back to a pivotal historical event and an inspiring individual who changed the course of the Muslim and ...