Meghan Bartels

NASA's next-generation space observatory has sustained its first noticeable impact less than six months after launch, but the agency isn't too concerned.

NASA's Voyager 1 space probe sent a confusing signal back to Earth, suggesting the craft doesn't know where it's located.

Take three black holes and throw them into the disk surrounding a supermassive black hole and things get really weird, really fast.

The team behind NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released some of the first images from the much-anticipated observatory on Friday (Feb. 11).

Scientists have gotten a close look at an extreme case of seasons, thanks to a retired NASA telescope.

Comet Leonard is falling out of view, but not without putting on one last show.

Astronomers spotted a new gas giant with the shortest known orbit. The world takes just 16 hours to circle its star — but someday, the dance may come to an abrupt end.

Someday, tucked away gathering dust in a nondescript warehouse, there will perhaps be a spacecraft waiting to be called to the launch pad, even as its builders pray it never flies.

Seven astronauts were forced to take shelter due to flying space debris.

The sun is waking up — and making sure we all know it.

It's tough to be the biggest planet in the solar system, and this fall Jupiter is taking a beating.

Scientists have identified a rare solar system object with traits of both an asteroid and a comet.

Earth is reflecting less light as its climate continues to change, new research suggests.

Brilliant dashcam fireball videos help scientists find 3 meteorites in Slovenia

Our galaxy isn't as thoroughly mixed as scientists sometimes assume, according to a new study.

The scientists that found Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein are an unlikely pair.

Venus is Earth's twisted twin in so many ways, what about on the skywatching front?

NASA must again stop work on its human moon lander partnership with SpaceX due to a Blue Origin lawsuit, further risking the agency's tight timeline to return astronauts to the moon.

Chinese astronomers hope to establish a major observatory program on the roof of the world, the Tibetan Plateau, with new research arguing for pristine observing conditions nestled in the uplands.

Astronomers think they have established a new way to calculate the size of supermassive black holes: by studying the feeding patterns of these invisible giants.

If the possibility of an asteroid called Bennu slamming into Earth a lifetime from now was keeping you up at night, NASA scientists think you can rest a little easier.

NASA's sun-grazing spacecraft is making its ninth daring dive past our neighborhood star in a continuing quest to puzzle out secrets of how the sun works.

On Monday (July 26), astronauts said goodbye to a cornerstone of the International Space Station and captured stunning images of the compartment burning up in Earth's atmosphere.

When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos offered her a seat on the first crewed flight of his space tourism enterprise Blue Origin, it was an invitation aviator Wally Funk had waited six decades to receive.