NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning ...

The Trump administration is reopening public comment on a proposed rule that would list the monarch butterfly as threatened ...

The vernal equinox heralds the arrival of spring in the Northern Hemisphere (finally). But have you heard the myth about ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

A Dragon capsule undocked from the International Space Center early Tuesday, sending NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Researchers found Earth's orbital changes align with past volcanic eruptions. Climate shifts and massive eruptions occurred ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 74 satellites from central California early Saturday morning (March 15), then came back to ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...