The universe contains many surprises and opportunities, including the phenomena of exoplanets.

The agency’s leader said new plans and timelines for the coming decade aim to create a permanent foothold by humans on ...

NASA has played a central role in some of the most groundbreaking achievements in modern American history, from winning the ...

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...

Astronomers have an answer for a long-running mystery in astrophysics: why is the growth of supermassive black holes so much ...

A team of astronomers have studied two black holes that merged into a massive new one, confirming a 50-year-old theory that ...

"With the longevity of the Hubble Space Telescope, even an object like the Crab Nebula is revealed to be in motion, still expanding from the explosion nearly a millennium ago." ...

The U.S. space agency will aim to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars—a first—in a bid to show that nuclear propulsion ...

A rare and aging NASA spacecraft is slipping out of orbit, triggering an urgent and unconventional rescue effort led by a ...

The decades since scientists confirmed the first planet around another star have been rich in discovery, but it’s rare to see ...

NASA will host a public event outlining plans to return astronauts to the moon and build a lunar base under President Donald ...

Several prominent scientists and researchers in the U.S. have reportedly died or gone missing over the past year, fueling speculation about whether some of the disappearances may […] ...