Texas is now headquarters for a number of impressive space commerce companies, including Firefly in Cedar Park, near Austin, and Intuitive Machines, Axiom Space and Franklin Chang-Diaz’s ambitious ...
This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, when viewed through ground-based telescopes, it resembles a face surrounded by a fur ...
Carina Nebula’s ‘Mystic Mountain’: This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope‘s Wide ...
For the first time, the US military shared an orbital selfie from its mysterious X-37B space plane, which captured Earth from ...
With the new observations, NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That ...
The military keeps in-flight details on the X-37B relatively quiet. A new photo gives the first look at what the view is from ...
Though Artemis was conceived in President Donald Trump’s first term, he has openly mused about bypassing the Moon and heading ...
Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...
Arp 282: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space ...
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two galaxies interacting due to gravity: NGC 5996 (the large spiral galaxy) and ...
How prepared are we to deflect an asteroid heading towards Earth? This question is answered by two studies just published in ...
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.