The Deep Space Network enables communication with all the missions in space, from telescopes like Hubble to rovers and ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

Just 13 months after declaring the moon "a distraction," Elon Musk has announced that Earth's nearest neighbor is now the ...

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and ...

Celebrate 35 years of the Hubble Space Telescope with stunning imagery of Mars nebulae and distant galaxies showcasing decades of discovery. People in Denmark 'stunned' by Trump's Greenland comments, ...

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts to collect Perseverance rover samples that could contain evidence of alien ...

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters has provided the most precise distance to the Coma Cluster of galaxies yet — and also has deepened a crisis in cosmology. The problem is ...

NASA lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter in early December and has been unable to reconnect with the vehicle. NASA plans to resume efforts to hail the spacecraft now that the solar conjunction ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and Blue Origin are planning to launch the ESCAPADE mission, where a pair of satellites will study Mars' magnetosphere. ESCAPADE will eventually help future ...