The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the most distant single star found yet. It took the light from the star 12.9 billion light years to reach Earth. Learn how it was discovered. Credit; ...

From solar storms to "shooting stars" over Stonehenge, here are our top 10 favorite space photos of 2024 — and what they told ...

Billionaire aeronaut Jared Isaacman, the NewSpace superstar set to head NASA, says he envisions millions of space sojourners ...

President Jimmy Carter's impact on the U.S. space program honored in Florida where so many of the nation's space ambitions ...

M87, a prominent galaxy in the Virgo cluster, gained fame after the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) revealed the first image of ...

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

NASA and European Space Agency collaborating on planetary defense missions to determine if we can deflect near-Earth objects away from Earth.

Hubble captured a star-filled scene featuring the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (Palomar 6), located near the center of the Milky Way. The image features WR 25 and Tr16-244, two massive stars located in ...

Space.com was on duty all year to bring you every major development in our understanding of the universe's most fascinating ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space. It took 30 years to ...

In 2025, the Rubin Observatory in Chile will start operations and survey the southern sky every four days with a 3.2 gigapixel camera.

Some of the findings this year could make us healthier, while others expand the outer limits of our knowledge of the universe ...