A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent final stages of a dying star's life.

Astrophotographer Thierry Legault captured the International Space Station transit the Sun. The NASA astronauts were ...

Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

Two groups keep an eye on near-Earth objects that exceed a specific chance of striking Earth. The first, IAWN, coordinates worldwide detection and heads up possible warning strategies. The second, ...

The ESA team then performed testing for a few weeks, before telling Gaia to leave its home at a point in space called L2 and ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) shut down its space observatory ... in the Lagrange point 2 (L2), around 1.5 million kilometres ‘behind’ the Earth, when viewed from the Sun. This effectively allows ...

Real-life asteroids don’t come hurtling toward Earth from the outer reaches of space the way they do in the movies. They tend to orbit elliptical paths around the sun, passing within sight of ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn that “city killer” space rock ... orbit the sun three times ...

Nuclear rockets are the future of space propulsion ... the energy-producing process that powers the Sun—to provide limitless clean energy on Earth. However, fusion also has other non-terrestrial ...

UPDATE: The Northern Lights could be visible in the U.S. tonight (March 26), appearing as far south as New York and Idaho due to a "coronal hole" sending streams of charged particles toward Earth.

In this thought experiment grounded in Einstein’s relativity, we unpack how a simple diagram changes our entire understanding of “now.” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth breaks silence over ...

LIVING in space is about to get a whole lot fancier as design companies race to get their futuristic bases floating around Earth. The International Space Station's days are numbered (with it due ...