A Long Island kid who loved Charlie Brown and the New York Mets would one day repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Niobium, a heavy metal never before found in a white dwarf, shows up in the atmosphere of HS 0209+0832 at more than 1,000 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the iconic Pillars of Creation and the view is spectacular! Travel 6,500 light-years away in this zoom into the epic new imagery. Also, see a comparison ...

NASA has selected the far-infrared space telescope mission PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics) to move to the ...

At the heart of most large galaxies sits a supermassive black hole. They’re the most massive objects in the universe, ...

World Space Week 2026 celebrates reusable rockets and wider access to space, while urging responsible exploration, protection ...

Views from three space telescopes combine in this look at the Tarantula Nebula, spanning wavelengths from X-ray to infrared.

Margaret Hamilton, the scientist behind the onboard flight software that helped guide Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin safely ...

The Earth-based Rubin Observatory and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched this year, both figuratively and literally. The Rubin Observatory in Chile began observing on this past June and the ...

ALMA, a 66‑antenna radio observatory in northern Chile, is boosting its star‑ and planet‑formation studies with new receivers ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Early Sunday morning, NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The mission is to help astronomers search for dark energy and planets.

Space is a frontier where we could do things differently, yet we are replicating the same patterns of commerce and control.