On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

A beautiful but skewed spiral galaxy dazzles in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy, called Arp 184 or NGC ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

An astronaut who missed out on the first all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit sizing issue got her chance six years ...

From breathtaking snapshots of distant galaxies to game-changing discoveries about the universe’s expansion, the Hubble Space ...

"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

Curiosity rover is hunting for microbial life on Mars. NASA reconnaissance orbiter snapped its first-ever image of Curiosity ...

Fresh from space, NASA's oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with ...

Israel strikes building in Beirut claiming it belongs to Hezbollah. The act strained an already fragile ceasefire with ...

Credit: Ground-based image: Digitized Sky Survey; Hubble image: NASA, ESA and S. Lilly (Eidgenossiche Technische ... 6 - A ...

NASA is ending its lease for the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in NYC, part of a federal review. The institute, vital ...