The Dark Energy Camera captured glowing nebulae in the Chamaeleon I star-forming region, illuminating the dense clouds with newborn starlight.

A stunning breakthrough in solar physics reveals ultra-fine magnetic structures on the Sun's surface, thanks to the NSF's ...

A powerful new telescope will usher in a new era of cosmic discovery, but in a political climate vastly different from when ...

The first batch of test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is scheduled to be released Monday at 11:30 a.m., followed ...

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

A study using the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes has revealed that "an exploded star can pose more risks to nearby planets than previously thought." The Chandra team ...

NASA released a nicely produced documentary about the James Webb Space Telescope called "Cosmic Dawn: the Untold Story of the ...

On June 13, 2024, astronomers using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) detected an extraordinarily brief flash of radio waves, lasting less than 30 nanoseconds and peaking at ...

Much of the shuttle’s storied history was written in Houston, home to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. But today, Discovery rests ...

On June 23, the first images from the much-anticipated Vera C. Rubin Observatory atop Chile’s Cerro Pachón will be shown to ...

According to a news release from Cornyn's office, Space Shuttle Discovery is owned by the federal government. It is currently in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy ...

From a James City County soccer field, Van Ruckman observed a distant asteroid and its moon, a feat that electrified the ...