Mission scientists "waited with bated breath" to see if their last-minute operation to save a spacecraft's camera hundreds of millions of miles away had worked.

From one perspective, the Sun is a benevolent orb of plasma and its warmth makes Earth habitable and has kept it habitable ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star.

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are painting a new picture of Jupiter's moon Europa and revealing ...

A sudden burst of red light flickered above a thunderstorm, and for a brief moment, Earth’s upper atmosphere revealed one of ...

The Earth's surface is ready for its closeup.When the NASA-ISRO SAR satellite launches into orbit on July 30, it will ping nearly all of the planet's ...

Most Americans are worried about climate change -- reasonable response to rising sea levels, heat waves, bigger wildfires, longer droughts, stronger storms.

More than six decades after Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created a superhero team to rival the Justice League, the Fantastic Four ...

It's around 1.6 times the mass of the Sun, Howell and his colleagues believe, at an orbital separation of 4 astronomical ...

It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the ...

Virts, formerly commander of the International Space Station, is running for a Senate seat in Texas as a Democrat.