Voyager 2 spent over four decades journeying through the outer solar system. In 2018, it became only the second human-made ...

It spans a crescent shape about 40 times the diameter of the full moon in the night sky, researchers said. The ...

It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Scientists using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope have peered into the interstellar medium like never before, uncovering ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

TINY critters will be sent into orbit to research how to prepare humans for long-haul space trips. Tardigrades could show how ...

Prebiotic molecules central to life's earliest metabolic processes—chemical reactions in cells that change food into ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...