Gavin Wang, a rising senior studying physics and mathematics, has been named a 2025 Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut ...

Methuselah, located 12,400 light years away in the constellation Scorpio, is one of the most ancient exoplanets ever ...

Imagine a space telescope with a mirror stretching 50 meters across! That's larger than the width of a U.K. soccer field and ...

Solar flares, blasts of plasma gasses of solar energy might shape the short-term weather on distant planets according to a ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

European Space Agency ESA is getting ready to launch in 2026 a terrestrial planets exploration tool called PLAnetary Transits ...

NASA has pushed the boundaries of astronomy once again with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—the most advanced telescope ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

On Wednesday evening (July 9), President Donald Trump named Sean Duffy interim chief of the space agency. Duffy takes over from Janet Petro, who had served as acting NASA administrator since Trump was ...

To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to scratch ...