The White House's 2026 budget request axes NASA's long-held plan to bring Mars samples to Earth for analysis. Here's why that cancellation would be a mistake.

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

Discover the order of planets in the solar system. From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home. The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of ...

The mission has a Narrow Field Imager (NFI) and three Wide Field Imagers (WFIs). The NFI snaps pictures of the corona around ...

A new study from the NASA New Horizons mission team at the Southwest Research Institute have resulted in a first-of-its-type map from the Milky Way galaxy in an ultraviolet wavelength, revealing ...

NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...

The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex chemical reactions in space that may relate to the formation of our solar system and the origin of life.

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions ...

The NASA Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) travels through space using power from the sun. | Photo courtesy of NASA Saravanan compares the satellite to a sailboat in space powered by nothing ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...