The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

Perched high in the foothills of Chile’s Andes mountains, a revolutionary new space telescope has just taken its first pictures of the cosmos—and they’re spectacular. Astronomers are excited ...

Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of deep space. But how does it ...

NIRCam Image of the Carina Nebula. (Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI) Thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, humans can now catch a glimpse of galaxies far, far away. In a series of five images ...

Breathtaking stellar nurseries, a sprawling stretch of cosmos teeming with millions of galaxies, and thousands of newly discovered asteroids were revealed Monday in the first deep space images ...

It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, and the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope did not disappoint.During a July 12 news conference, the world had a ringside ...

STORY: Breathtaking images of deep space taken by a telescope orbiting almost one million miles from earth were unveiled by NASA on Tuesday.The first full-color, high-resolution pictures from the ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ventured through the Kuiper Belt at a distance of more than 5.5 ...

A one-of-a-kind observatory has been peering into the depths of space for three decades, capturing breathtaking images of galaxies billions of light years from Earth and has helped scientists ...

Perched high in the foothills of Chile’s Andes mountains, a revolutionary new space telescope has just taken its first pictures of the cosmos—and they’re spectacular. Astronomers are excited about the ...