Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

A pair of space probes cruising the solar system may be able to pass through the tail of the mysterious Manhattan-sized comet ...

The highly anticipated interstellar comet is currently invisible from Earth and completely hidden by the Sun's glare.

Two Sydney PhD students have pulled off a remarkable space science feat from Earth—using AI-driven software to correct image ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spacecraft is located 5 degrees below the Pleiades star. As the month wears on, it travels ...

One of the boldest dreams in modern astronomy is the search for Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. These exoplanets may hold oceans, rocky ground, and even atmospheres rich in oxygen or ...

In 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman discovered the mysterious “Wow! Signal” — a powerful radio burst from deep space at the hydrogen line frequency. Nearly five decades later, scientists believe the newly ...

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...

Breakthroughs in astrophysics could reshape our understanding of the universe in the next decade. Observations of gravity waves could prove Einstein’s theory of general relativity, or tip physics on ...

Just in time for Hallowe'en in 2024, Hubble and JWST captured an image of two interacting spiral galaxies — IC 2163 and NGC ...