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Scientists have detected oxygen on Mars - and it could reveal something fascinating about the planet's past
SOFIA, which flies between 37,000 and 45,000 feet above sea level, actually measured about half the…
Ali Sundermier
NASA will share an 'exciting new discovery' about the moon on Monday. Listen to the announcement live.
NASA says the discovery could support deep-space exploration efforts. It will share the findings in…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
NASA's powerful new space telescope will be named after Nancy Grace Roman — the agency's first female executive, known as the 'mother of Hubble'
Nancy Grace Roman was told she couldn't do science. She became NASA's first woman executive and mad…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
Watch live as Biden reveals the first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
NASA's new space telescope is 100 times more powerful than Hubble, with the ability to peer further…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
The James Webb Space Telescope is astronomy's shiny new toy, but the Hubble Space Telescope isn't old news — it's at its scientific peak
Because Webb looks at the universe in infrared, it will miss celestial objects in the visible and u…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
A Super-Powerful Telescope Caught This Image Of Strange Happenings In An Ancient Star Cluster
Star clusters are made up of giant circular clouds of old stars, some around 12 billion years old (…
Randy Astaiza
New James Webb Space Telescope photos of Jupiter show stunning auroras, faint rings, and tiny moons
The powerful infrared telescope captured images of Jupiter's auroras, which are the brightest in th…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
Astronomers are urging NASA to build a huge space telescope to see Earth-like worlds outside our solar system
NASA is just about to launch a groundbreaking space telescope. But a once-a-decade report asks the …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
The moon is sprinkled with patches of frozen water, NASA scientists discovered. Mining it may be crucial for travel to Mars and beyond.
NASA may need to mine water from the moon to send astronauts into deep space. Two new studies indic…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
23 Incredible Prize-Winning Astronomy Pictures
The Royal Observatory shared with us the winners and notable mentions of the competition. Their des…
Kamelia Angelova
The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has to unfold itself in space — a nail-biting maneuver NASA's never attempted
Launching NASA's most valuable observatory is stressful enough, but Webb must also unfold itself in…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
NASA's first full-color image from the James Webb Space Telescope peers further back in time than any prior infrared lens, revealing 13 billion years of galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope captured galaxies from more than 13 billion years ago in stunning in…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Paola R…
Scientists want to build telescopes on the moon for up to $10 billion to see more of the universe than the James Webb Space Telescope
Astronomers want to build giant telescopes on the moon. They're already drafting blueprints and mak…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Watch NASA launch its $10 billion, game-changing James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas morning
Webb could revolutionize astronomy by spotting the universe's first galaxies. But the telescope has…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Elon Musk's 'bright' Starlink satellite train sparks regulation debate
Astronomers, on the other hand, are rallying against Elon Musk’s broadband enterprise launched…
Astronauts in space photographed a giant volcano erupting in the Pacific Ocean
Keeping track of volcanic plumes that breach that stratosphere - which starts about 33,000 feet (6.…
Aylin Woodward
ISRO, NASA just spotted a black hole spinning so fast that it could be making space itself rotate
Those X-rays were caused by gas and dust falling into the black hole, which is about 10 time…
A stunning photo shows both red-sprite and blue-jet lightning in the skies above Hawaii
An observatory in Mauna Kea photographed a "red sprite" and "blue jet" during a storm. These lightn…
Aylin Woodward
Astronomers Witness The Birth Of The Milky Way's Most Massive Star
"The remarkable observations from ALMA allowed us to get the first really in-depth look at what was…