The Voyager probes are each turning off an instrument to avoid ending their 47-year-long missions later this year.

Astronomers have made an exciting breakthrough by discovering four sub-Earth exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our closest ...

Some of the most massive and influential stars in the universe are OB stars. These blue giants, many times more massive than ...

Matteo Paz built a machine-learning algorithm in high school to analyze heaps of data for NASA. He just won a $250,000 ...

JWST images reveal galaxy rotation patterns that challenge the Big Bang model. Could the universe be spinning?

We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed. Primordial helium from the ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...

Researchers have identified a galaxy that existed when the universe was less than 300 million years old. This galaxy, known ...

Recent science developments include the launch of NASA's SPHEREx telescope to explore the universe's origins, discoveries of ancient human fossils in Spain, a postponed NASA-SpaceX astronaut swap, and ...

In just over three years since its launch, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has generated significant and ...