The space station and one other Easter egg — the site of NASA's next human moon landing — are hidden in this lucky photo.

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global ...

There may be no enterprise that lends itself so well to the camera as space travel. The universe is a riot of color and light—of galaxies and planets and brightly hued moons. The people who explore ...

December doesn’t just bring the winter solstice, it also brings one of the year's most impressive meteor showers. The Geminid meteor shower peaks Dec. 13, producing up to 120 meteors per hour visible ...

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple nations will launch ...

The moon greets Jupiter two days ahead of its full moon phase on Feb. 1.

The telescope primarily detects light in the infrared in order to observe sources such as the first galaxies and protostars.

A NASA exhibit on the Hubble and Webb space telescopes opens at the Everhart Museum this week — the first space show since a moon rock was displayed for one week in 1970. “This is Smithsonian-level ...