A team of NASA astronauts was recently sent home early from the ISS. This was due to a medical issue, and Mike Fincke was ...

The latest images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have revealed new details in a mysterious, little-studied nebula ...

NASA said its Webb telescope has observed the little-studied PMR 1, nicknamed the “Exposed Cranium” nebula.

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.

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

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 ...

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured imagery of a pair of stars called Wolf-Rayet 140.

Whether purchased by space enthusiasts, stamp collectors or casual letter writers, these stamps bring the wonders of the universe a little closer to home. Crab Nebula The Crab Nebula, located about 6, ...

Some of the universe's most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our observations can capture the long-lived echo it leaves behind as the shock front ...