Nevada is one of very few places left in the country where there is so little artificial light the Milky Way is visible to ...

"Everything scattered in the Andromeda system is very asymmetric and perturbed. It does appear that something significant ...

In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky stretching all the way to zenith — the point directly overhead. Directly ...

Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...

With the stresses on planet Earth in the headlines, at work and your day-to-day life, do you need a reminder that we’re just a speck on a dot in the endless vacuum of space? If so, ...

This stunning photo was taken on January 29, 2025, from 265 miles (425 km) above the Pacific Ocean. Pettit, a seasoned ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. ET.

New research suggests that interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua and Borisov arrive near Earth far more frequently than ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have a front-row seat to some of the most extraordinary sights in the ...

"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...

SPHEREx is set to launch at Friday from California. Here are five things to know about NASA's latest advanced space telescope ...