Commentary: Earth has been called the “Goldilocks planet" because it is positioned just the right distance for life to evolve ...

A recent image from the Hubble telescope offers us a dive into the heart of N159, an immense stellar nursery where the cosmic ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has spent more than three decades turning faint smudges into galaxies and rewriting textbooks, but ...

Space shuttle Atlantis landed Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base after rainy weather in Florida precluded a landing at Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle touched down at 8:39 a.m. PT at Edwards, about ...

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation has announced that veteran NASA astronauts Tom Akers and Joe Tanner will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame® at the annual induction ceremony on May ...

Every clear evening this winter, I've only had to part the living room window curtain to see Jupiter staring back. Head of ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted an object unlike any previously observed, revealing an unusual remnant of the ...

Astronomers have uncovered the long-hidden cause behind Betelgeuse’s strange behavior: a small companion star carving a visible wake through the giant’s vast atmosphere. Using nearly eight years of ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

NASA has selected two Colorado companies to help develop a future NASA space telescope that will look for signs of life on other planets. The flagship project, called the Habitable Worlds Observatory, ...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of object that is a starless cloud that failed to form as a galaxy. Here's what to ...