The Hayabusa2 mission to Ryugu found organic molecules on the asteroid, new research describes.
New observations have expanded the largest 2D map of the sky.
Six distant dots spotted by Webb are actually massive 13-billion-year-old galaxies.
The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite will study explosive moments in the cosmos.
The innermost planet to the Sun looks astonishingly close—and small—in the latest view from an extreme probe.
Behold the oblong space rock that sailed past Earth on February 3.
The Chelyabinsk meteor was the biggest space rock to hit Earth this century. Its shockwave shattered windows and…
The space observatory saw three galaxy clusters coming together to form a megacluster.
The 10 sample tubes are strewn about the Three Forks region of Jezero Crater.
Using the world-spanning Event Horizon Telescope, researchers were able to study an enormous jet of electromagnetic…
This is some of the best confirmation yet that the NASA robot is exploring a former lakebed.
Quaoar, a dwarf planet, has a ring system twice as far out as previously thought possible.
These space explorers managed to document their final moments, sending back precious data before going silent…
The roughly Colosseum-sized rock marks a new kind of target for Webb Space Telescope.
The rock, dubbed Cacao, is made of iron and nickel, NASA says.
The NASA rover is approaching its second year on Mars (in Earth time), and there are overcast days ahead.
With the discovery of several more moons around the gas giant, Jupiter has narrowly beat out Saturn as the moon…
The white dwarf is the dead core of a star that burned out a billion years ago.
The universe’s stuff is less clumpy than previously thought, according to new research.
The binary system will end in a massive, gold-forming explosion.