Six planets will align on Feb. 28, but not all will be seen with the naked eye. Here's how to watch the cosmic parade in the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured PMR 1 in Vela using NIRCam and MIRI, revealing structural layers, stellar winds, and evolutionary details of a planetary nebula.

Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to evolve. Since humanity has only existed for a sliver of that time, astronomers have only observed planetary systems at ...

While NASA’s ancien régime imposed a death sentence on the International Space Station, the super-icon can still be saved by NASA’s new wunderkind leader and by Congress.

Despite the dramatic name, these alignments aren’t exceptionally rare. The last six-planet parade occurred in January 2025, ...

And just wow.

On Thursday, Princeton University celebrated its leading role in NASA’s IMAP mission, highlighting how faculty and students are collaborating to study the boundary of our solar system and improve ...

Scientists found compounds in asteroid samples that are essential for life on Earth. They could also contain molecules necessary for forming consciousness.

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

Timing is everything — NASA's planetary scientist said stargazers must try catching this celestial event before sunrise or right after sunset.

In Argentina, researchers have discovered a well-preserved fossil of one of the world's smallest-known dinosaurs, Alnashetri cerropoliciensis. Scientists also reveal insights into Neanderthal-Homo ...