Webb takes Hubble's "Pillars of Creation" to new heights
The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope takes one of Hubble's most famous images to new heights.
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The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope takes one of Hubble's most famous images to new heights.
Former NASA astronaut James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission, died on Thursday, NASA said.
NASA's Lucy spacecraft will skirt Earth, coming within just a few hundred miles of us on its journey to the far-off Jupiter Trojan asteroids.
With the new system, researchers say people can "watch the surface of the star getting literally ripped apart in front of our eyes."
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully changed the trajectory of the asteroid Dimorphos when the NASA spacecraft intentionally slammed into the space rock on September 26, according to the agency.
Tom Cruise's next mission is looking all the more possible — a studio executive says he's going to be "taking the world to space" in his upcoming film.
Finding the remains of ancient stars "was like trying to find the mythical elephant's graveyard," scientists say.
This week, a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft with a diverse crew lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
October's full moon is just around the corner and serves as a reminder: the eerie season is fast approaching.
A dazzling spiral galaxy located 29 million light-years from Earth appears in "unprecedented detail" in a new image released by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
The 14,000-mph impact is designed to test whether a future threatening asteroid can be nudged off course.
The DART spacecraft is set to purposely crash into an asteroid — a test for a potential real threat far in the future.
Stargazers can get the view of a lifetime on Monday night as Jupiter makes its closest approach to Earth since 1963.
This was the 387th flight of a Delta rocket since 1960 and the 95th and final launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Monday will be a monumental day for the "history of humankind" as a high-speed spacecraft smashes into an asteroid at nearly 15,000 mph.
