Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

NGC 7293, aka the Helix Nebula, is located about 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, and belongs to a class ...

NASA / CXC / UMass / D. Wand et al. The Spitzer Space Telescope gathered infrared light and detected clouds of dust. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSC / S. Stolovy The Hubble Space Telescope, tuned to the ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop.

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at potential first signs of life on another world, an FDA greenlight for ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...

The attack on NASA is particularly focused on research into climate change and continues the trend, under both Republicans ...

When NASA's now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope first observed Herbig-Haro 49/50 (HH 49/50) in 2006, scientists dubbed it the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its spiral-like appearance. However ...

NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope captured the same shot in 2006, with scientists then dubbing the stellar jet “the cosmic tornado.” But it was too fuzzy to make out the background ...