Min Read This highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula was assembled by combining data from five telescopes spanning nearly ...

NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston closed 2025 with major progress across human spaceflight, research, and exploration.

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The New Year begins with the nearly full Moon at perigee in the early afternoon. Two days later –– at full Moon –– Earth is at perihelion, its closest point to the Sun.

As a rocket revolution sets the stage for astronauts to explore Mars, advances in bioengineering could help them survive the ...

The month brings a strong lineup of celestial sights, including a supermoon, meteor activity, and several close moon-planet ...

The creator of the futuristic Orion capsule, the only spacecraft capable of speeding aeronauts to the Moon, is set to begin ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located in the Orion Nebula. Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA, ...

Our beginner-friendly guide helps you get familiar with the moon, Jupiter, nebulas and galaxies this Christmas.

Saturn and Neptune will be in the same binocular view for the entire month. Neptune lies 3.5 degrees northeast of Saturn on ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

Today the globe is circled by thousands of active satellites—each prone to photobombing astronomers’ telescopes as an artificial star zipping across the night sky. Scientists working with ground-based ...