A bonkers find from boffins has found a "galaxy crash" unlike any other seen before and it could end up feeding black holes. In an incredibly rare find, canny astronomers spotted a system made up of ...
This image of the Vela Molecular Ridge was captured by SPHEREx and is part of the mission’s first public data release. The yellow patch on the right side of the image is the emission nebula RCW 36, a ...
Two more of NASA's space telescopes recently got another look at comet 3I/ATLAS, a captivating interstellar interloper that first captured the world's attention in July. The object – just the third ...
NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time, revealing cosmic secrets ...
NASA’s search for life beyond Earth is no longer a distant dream but a coordinated campaign that now stretches from Martian ...
This mash-up of data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals two galaxies mid-collision ...
"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental ...
NASA’s largest library at the Goddard Space Flight Center has shut permanently after 66 years. US lawmakers blame the Trump ...
In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth ...
Launched by NASA in 2009, the Kepler space telescope was outfitted with equipment to discover and study Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way galaxy. It was named after the 17th century scientist and ...
A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news when it was confirmed to be the 3rd-ever object observed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. Though the object poses no threat to Earth, astronomers ...