Mercury has long been cast as the solar system’s burnt-out rock, a relic too small and too close to the Sun to hold many ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has steadily been making its exit ever since it had a rendezvous at the end of October with the sun.

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the existence of a bright galaxy that formed just 280 million years after the big bang, pushing observations deeper into the universe’s earliest period ...

NASA’s Chandra Observatory captured a young Sun-like star blowing a giant X-ray bubble, revealing for the first time how ...

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NASA’s new administrator has floated a striking compromise in a long running fight over where the retired shuttle Discovery should live. Instead of uprooting the orbiter from the Smithsonian, he is ...

Perseverance, the aptly named robot that has been criss-crossing the planet Mars since February 2021, has collected numerous samples along its 30 km route. Assigned to explore an ancient river delta ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...