"America is leading humanity back to the Moon, onward to Mars, and into a golden age of space exploration," Nelson wrote, ...

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

Planets outside our solar system can be wild, weird places. Astronomers have discovered exoplanets shaped like a rugby ball, or where it rains gems, or which have one hemisphere covered in lava. And ...

Who is the most famous North Carolinian today?If you check the latest edition of the World Almanac as I do this time every year, you will find a list of “Famous North Carolinians.”That list includes ...

Watch how JW Telescope detects temperature on Trappist 1 b. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: ESO/L. Calçada / Space ...

BAE Systems says it has successfully delivered the “ SPHEREx ” space observatory to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, ahead of a planned launch in late February.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

Capturing images of individual stars in distant galaxies has generally been considered impossible for decades. But NASA’s ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

NASA's striking discovery in the universe. The agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a planet ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared glow of an ancient supernova's light echo, revealing ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. It is 11,000 light-years away in the Cassiopeia constellation. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA, ...