Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and Messier 57. With Webb, the researchers could see a compact dust cloud ...

Does Donald Trump have the political capital this time around to actually gut the Endangered Species Act in perpetuity?

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. It is 11,000 light-years away in ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according ...

A glacier in Antarctica is rapidly redirecting ice from a neighboring glacier, revealing a new and urgent dynamic in ice flow ...

The members of the crew come from the United States, India, Hungary and Poland, with the latter three countries not having ...

Black holes are astronomical objects invisible to the human eye. They have a gravitational pull so strong that they swallow everything, including light. A supermassive black hole is the biggest of all ...

Earth. It’s about 10 times more massive than Earth, and orbits in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star 2475 light-years away ...

Europe compares favourably with the US on the level of space science it delivers, and Esa has sometimes “gone boldly” where even Nasa has not. Now that Esa has turned 50 years old, it’s a good time to ...

An estimated $206.2 million shortfall means district and charter schools should expect about 60% of their regular monthly aid ...

The Axiom Space Ax-4 mission led by record-setting Peggy Whitson making her fifth trip to space is set to launch with three ...