As Bajaj puts it: "These James Webb Space Telescope data sets are so beautiful." ...

Our sun may be responsible for life on Earth, but stars across the galaxy are also responsible for creating a plethora of ...

When they are formed, neutron stars rotate in space. As they compress and shrink ... Few of the known existing neutron stars are pulsars. Only about 1,000 pulsars are known to exist, though ...

With a replacement crew on board the space station, NASA is eyeing Tuesday for the Starliner astronauts' return to Earth, finally ending their marathon mission.

His favorite shot from space is the one of star trails at the top of this story. It’s also the cover of his book. Star trails are long-exposure shots — up to 30 minutes long for Pettit — and ...

It is now thought that water first formed in space only 100 to 200 million years ... nuclear fusion in the cores of the oldest dying stars only 100 to 200 million years after the Big Bang.

Companies are landing on the moon—or trying to. These players all have exciting goals for innovation on the final frontier.

The two astronauts who crewed the Boeing Starliner have greeted their replacements, who docked Sunday morning at the International Space Station.

The only thing left at this point is a core ... a dimmer explosion than a supernova known as a kilonova. “[The colliding neutron stars] actually drag space time with them, we can actually hear them,” ...