Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a view of the earliest moments of galaxy formation in the universe. It's also ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

"We report the discovery of one of the most distant galaxies known to date," astrophysicist Joris Witstok told Newsweek.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a ...

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

Late on Thursday night and into the early hours of Friday, the full moon turned a beautiful reddish color as it drifted ...

As part of this, the research team calculated the supernova rate within 20 parsecs of the Sun, or approximately 65 ...

The cuts, revealed in an internal email reported by Axios, are tied to a phased reduction in force that also dissolves NASA’s Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility, affecting about ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests. Researchers at Keele University say ...