"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...

The powerful Webb with its incredible sensitivity observed dust grains the size of bacteria, which will eventually coalesce ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.

Summer-a time when the urge to explore places familiar and new beckons to young and old alike. Although the sun sets late during the summer months, we inevitably find ourselves outside looking at ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Space is home to a great many oddities, and even chemistry gets strange out there. In fact, there are even some molecules ...

A space law expert has said Elon Musk could be in deep trouble his personal Tesla car crashed back into the planet.

Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

For budding astronomers and space experts, telescopes bridge the gap between them and space. To take your love of the planets ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.