Texas is now headquarters for a number of impressive space commerce companies, including Firefly in Cedar Park, near Austin, and Intuitive Machines, Axiom Space and Franklin Chang-Diaz’s ambitious ...

A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using microlensing, astronomers spotted the pair moving at over 1.2 million mph.

Though Artemis was conceived in President Donald Trump’s first term, he has openly mused about bypassing the Moon and heading ...

How prepared are we to deflect an asteroid heading towards Earth? This question is answered by two studies just published in ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

While Semeter is studying the ionosphere, the SHIELD NASA DRIVE Center, a team of astrophysicists from different universities ...

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive ...