This is the first time an object in its class has been detected in X-rays. The discovery could lead to a better understanding ...

The Center for Space Exploration Research at the University of California, Davis, has partnered with Proteus Space to launch ...

Finding a Saturn-sized world around the young star TWA 7 could pave the way for the Webb space telescope’s direct observation of other exoplanets.

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

With the advancement of long-term missions to the moon and Mars, crews are expected to live together in isolated and confined ...

Sally K. Ride (May 26, 1951–July 23, 2012) became the first American woman in space in 1983. She was one of six women selected to enter the astronaut corps in 1978. While all six women flew on space ...

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

"The two of us together — we're using this as an occasion to explore elements of who and what we are, and how we became who ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

Where, exactly, is the edge of space? It depends on who you ask. With more countries and commercial companies heading into the stratosphere, the debate about how to define outer space is heating up.