When NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2021, its success depended on one crucial task — keeping its ...

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...

The solar system is composed of the sun, eight major planets, five dwarf planets, over a hundred moons, and countless comets ...

A pair of Sydney Ph.D. students helped sharpen the view of humanity's most powerful space observatory—without leaving Earth.

Could a vagabond giant from the outermost regions of interstellar space be poised on the cusp of sweeping by our cosmic doorstep? Astronomers say yes and they have the data to support it. Using the ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

Could Artemis III astronauts collect some lunar samples that shed light on the moon's mysterious past? That's what a team of ...

There is a dwarf planet out in the Kuiper Belt that has been named Quaoar, and it tends to get more attention than would ...

In Sunday morning’s pre-dawn sky, you’ll see a very thin waning crescent moon right next to brilliant Venus. The moon will be ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Citing the proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration, NASA announced on Friday that after the Artemis III mission — where Americans will return to the moon — the rocket ...

Machine learning and advanced optics helped scientists correct distortions in Webb’s images, unlocking new potential to ...