After a week of intense solar and geomagnetic activity that sent the northern lights spilling far beyond their usual ...

Skygazers who look up at the moon tonight may be able to spot Saturn below it. Here's when and how to spot the conjunction.

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground observatories. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang reported on the unveiling of Schmidt ...

On Mars, in the belly of a rover named Perseverance, a titanium tube holds a stone more precious than any diamond or ruby on Earth. The robot spotted it in 2024 along the banks of a Martian riverbed ...

Astronomers using Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new type of cosmic object that is believed to be a “failed galaxy”. Dubbed ‘Cloud-9’, the astronomical curiosity is a cloud of dark ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first step on the moon was one of humanity's most exciting accomplishments. Now scientists are planning return trips – and ...

Outside Earth's protection, space travellers will be routinely exposed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article was ...

Space scientists have shared four seasonally-themed cosmic wonders. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have chosen four new space images for a special holiday card. The pictures include a pair of ...

"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to ...

With NASA’s operations under existential threat from the Trump administration, maybe it’s not surprising that the agency will be taking a much needed moment to zone out and gaze into a void or two — ...

NASA/Josh Valcarcel Houston, the site of mission control for astronaut training, just got two new additions from Texas. Rebecca Lawler and Anna Menon, from Little Elm and Houston, respectively, were ...

Day 20 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Cosmic Cliffs. The James Webb Space Telescope peered inside a region at the edge of a gigantic gaseous cavity within the star cluster NGC 3324.