​ NASA’s newest eye on the cosmos is officially open for business, commencing its regular science operations this week with the main charge of mapping the universe. After a six-week calibration period, NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe,

​ The U.S. administration is proposing a $6 billion cut to NASA’s budget for next year, axing cornerstones of the agency’s Moon program and its ambitious plan to return rocky samples from Mars. President Donald Trump’s administration released a so-called

​ You might owe that gold necklace around your neck to a moody, long-dead star from the universe’s ancient past. According to a new study, magnetars—a rare type of neutron star—may have forged some of the first heavy elements in the

​ The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an effort to understand the origins of Earth. Although it’s still a few years away from orbiting the

​ Two astronauts are gearing up for some orbital maintenance work outside the International Space Station (ISS) during a rare all-woman spacewalk. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers are set to begin their spacewalk on Thursday at 8 a.m.

​ Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any world whose light has been directly observed—an astonishing detection that reveals the extreme conditions of some worlds in our

​ The aspiring air taxi company Joby Aviation just completed a complicated in-air maneuver that puts the company’s futuristic-looking aircraft on the path toward Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) flight testing. Joby successfully flew one of its six-rotor aircraft from vertical

​ A Firefly Aerospace rocket failed to deliver its payload to orbit on Tuesday, creating a cloud of debris in the sky before falling back down toward an ocean crash. Firefly launched its Alpha rocket on April 29 at 9:37

​ A team of astronomers says it has identified a single, slow-moving infrared object that checks all the right boxes for it being the long-theorized ninth planet lurking beyond Neptune. The hunt for Planet Nine—the solar system’s ghostly gravitational troll—is

​ The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of gravity. Molecular clouds are vast cosmic entities that often stretch for hundreds of light-years, and scientists just discovered a