There’s something about viewing Earth from space — the shift in perspective has for decades moved us emotionally, ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

San Antonio-built satellites on mission to stare at the sun, opened their eyes and tested their thrusters for the first time last week.

In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid ...

NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission has taken its first measurements.

Fourth-year undergraduate students aim to be the first to obtain reentry data with affordable, small spacecraft called HEDGE.

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...