New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by ...

NASA’s latest observations using the James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will miss the Moon in 2032, ...

Observations from a global network of telescopes helped verify that NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbit of ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

In September 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft rammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 kilometers per hour). The mission aimed to test whether NASA could one day ...

NASA has detected a precursor or progenitor to a supernova for the first time – and it's all thanks to old photos.

Space is often thought of as calm, quiet, and unchanging, but sometimes the universe surprises scientists with its sheer speed and drama. Recently, NASA captured an extraordinary cosmic event that few ...

NASA confirms whether asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a threat to Earth, but a small chance of impacting the Moon in 2032 sparks interest.

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

Many of us know Jupiter as the solar system’s largest planet, and while it still is, recent findings from NASA’s Juno mission reveal data that the planet is a little smaller and more "squashed" than ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has transformed new views of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus into immersive soundscapes, turning planetary data into audio you can hear.

Scientists at the University of Virginia and NASA have come up with a small, hand-held device that could be a big help to ...