The first humans stepped on the moon in 1972, and since then, no one has back. Now, NASA is taking the steps to get back to ...

Scientists have successfully decoded portions of a long-lost star catalog created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, using powerful synchrotron ...

Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the ...

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have recovered pieces of the Hipparchus star ...

Over decades, he’s changed how his peers view the heavens. Space isn’t just an endless canvas to be studied at leisure, he says. See how it is also like a bag of popcorn in the microwave.

The four suits were located in the the suit-up room of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The photo was taken on Jan. 17, 2026.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keep finding the same impossible thing: ancient supermassive black holes; monsters millions of times the sun’s mass, existing when the cosmos ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

James Webb Space Telescope images of COSMOS-74706 with visible spiral arms and prospective central bar structure marked with white lines. Photo ...