Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date for ...

A partnership between NASA and the French space agency, the satellite is poised to help improve forecasts of where and when flooding will occur in Earth’s rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. Rivers, lakes, ...

Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA ...

When imaging faint objects such as distant stars or exoplanets, capturing every last bit of light is crucial to get the most out of a scientific mission. These cameras must be extremely low-noise, and ...

Bright, starry spiral arms surround an active galactic center in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy NGC ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most ...

C.26 Rapid Mission Design Studies for Mars Sample Return (RASMSR) solicits industry proposals to carry out rapid studies of ...

Kepler realized that the orbits of the planets are not perfect circles. His brilliant insight was that planets move in ...

An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b. Precise brightness measurements over a broad ...

NASA is working to resume science operations of the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope after it entered safe mode April 23 due ...

At a time when phone cameras are capable of taking snapshots with millions of pixels, an instrument on the Japan-led XRISM (X ...

Two NASA pathfinding missions were recently deployed into low-Earth orbit, where they are demonstrating novel technologies ...