The scientific community is mobilizing to keep the powerful X-ray telescope off the chopping block. Will it be enough?

Essentially, TESS has access to a significantly larger pool of stars in which it can find planets. The TESS mission has also operated for longer than Kepler, spanning nearly six years (and counting) ...

The measurements are the first of their kind reported from the Moon’s polar highlands and broaden our view of the Moon’s ...

The only realistic option — and the one NASA has ultimately chosen — is to deorbit the station and let it come down through ...

Today, astronomers recognize 88 official constellations. These are not actually recognizable patterns of stars, but instead ...

How can space industry leaders avoid repeating practices that led to colonialism in the 18th century and beyond?

Stand under a Full Moon, catch a comet amid Berenice’s Hair, and locate the solar system’s distant ice giants in the sky this ...

Seismic analysis of data from NASA’s InSight lander could be a remnant of Mars’ watery past and raise prospects for life ...

The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form — and hope for in the ...

Although they didn't find anything, the “null result” is still useful, suggesting a maximum size for dark matter particles.

On Tuesday, August 20, you can catch a great conjunction of the Moon and Saturn. The ringed planet will be separated from a ...

After 10 years and nearly 27 million images, NASA said goodbye to the Near-Earth ObjectNEOWISE) mission last week when its ...