The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

For 34 years, the Hubble Telescope has been orbiting space, each day sending new information back to Earth. Now, the ...

If the FarView radio telescope is built, it would double as a demonstration of two unprecedented activities: mining and ...

NASA's Webb Space Telescope keeps spotting details no one has seen before: countless galaxies, clouds of dust birthing new ...

A decade ago, on Sept. 21, 2014, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmospheric and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft entered orbit around Mars, ...

"Early dark energy is one possible addition to the standard cosmological model that would preserve its many successes and resolve the Hubble tension," team member Michael Boylan-Kolchin, a professor ...

And the crew of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn attempted one this week and made history with the first spacewalk from a commercial ...

Located 8,000 light years away, the Bubble Nebula is also called NGC 7635. This image of the emission nebula was captured on Hubble’s 26th anniversary in space. This bright image of V838 Monocerotis ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine ... The 1990 launch of the Hubble Space Telescope gave astronomers a new, crisp view of the universe. Freedman led a multiyear ...

maiden voyages and telescope images — here's a look at all of our space stories from this week:After a troubled voyage so far, Boeing's empty Starliner capsule made its way home.Boeing’s ...

Now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution ... But that picture no longer accurately reflects the whole story, because now scientists know that atmospheric ...