An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is ...

No one can say with scientific confidence why we exist or what happens when we die. In fact, scientists have a tenuous grasp ...

NASA has long been a driving force in the pursuit of knowledge about space, technology, and the Earth itself. Founded with the mission to explore outer space, the agency has continually pushed the ...

The Carruthers Geocoronal Observatory, a NASA satellite built by researchers from BU and the University of Illinois-Urbana ...

For nearly five decades, NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have ventured farther than any other human-made object, pushing ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Wednesday reached its closest point to the Sun, a point known as perihelion. Although this ...

NASA confirms the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS poses no threat to Earth, despite viral speculation. Scientists and the UN are ...

While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

With the advent of commercial spaceflight, an increasing number of people may be heading into space in the coming years. Some will even get a chance ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captivated astronomers with its dramatic passage near the Sun, brightening significantly due to ...

Just in time for Hallowe'en in 2024, Hubble and JWST captured an image of two interacting spiral galaxies — IC 2163 and NGC ...