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.

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

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

Launch of world’s first satellite computing constellation gives China big head start in orbital data processing, despite ...

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 ...

The discovery, made by the James Webb Space Telescope, is a major step forward in filling in gaps in our understanding of how exoplanets develop. Like the Kuiper Belt in our solar system ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that crystalline ... which is also present in other well-researched regions of the solar system, like the Kuiper Belt and Saturn's rings.( ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Stars whizzing by our solar system could cause more havoc than astronomers previously thought, from sending Pluto’s orbit haywire to forcing Mercury to fly into the sun – or even ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has snapped pictures of a visible-light aurora from the Martian surface. It is the first time an ...

The auroras surrounding the north pole of our solar system's largest planet had some surprises in store when astronomers ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327 ...