Floating high above Earth's atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured some of the most breathtaking images ever ...

When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the ...

Cosmic dust, it turns out, isn’t made of miniature rocks. It’s fluff. A comprehensive analysis of data from space missions, ...

This article, originally titled "The Man Who Discovered the Universe," is from the Summer 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

A respected Harvard astrophysicist believes one of the most famous signals ever sent to Earth could have been sent by the ...

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object ...

NASA has awarded a contract to execute a high-stakes orbital maneuver, racing against time and atmospheric drag to prevent a critical science asset from tumbling back to Earth. The target of this ...

Would the next giant leap to the Moon be delayed not by a technical glitch, but by a Washington budget stalemate? With time running out to the close of the fiscal year, NASA is facing the increasing ...

Perseverance represents more than a machine. It is a proxy extending humanity’s senses across millions of miles to an alien ...