"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

By Kenneth Chang The agency launched an investigation into the “space vehicle mishap” on Thursday ... tourism is left unregulated. The WNYC science program “Radiolab” partnered with ...

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...

Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like birds chirping in an unexpected place. These bursts of plasma, called ...

Jan. 21, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet ...

Here, Space.com explores some of the biggest space mysteries currently perplexing scientists. In the early 20th century, astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding ...

They were massive, they were hot, and they had truly gargantuan explosions," JADES team member and Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) researcher David Coulter said at the 245th meeting of ...

Rethinking the Underlying Trigger of Quasar Jets Building on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in several ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark ...

Adam Leroy, a professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Henry Draper Medal.