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On Friday, May 2 the asteroid Vesta will reach opposition, marking the ideal period to spot the second largest asteroid orbiting in the rocky belt of debris located between Mars

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team shared a new image of a

Among the top 10 meteor showers appearing annually, one of the best will be reaching its peak on Tuesday morning (May 6). The Eta Aquarid shower ranks among the top

Recently, a team of University of Cambridge-led astronomers made global headlines after announcing they’d found the “strongest evidence yet” of life beyond our solar system. Their claims were based on

Two NASA astronauts will conduct the fifth all-female spacewalk in history today (May 1), and you can watch the action live. Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain will head outside the

A flurry of new discoveries from NASA’s Juno mission Jupiter have taken us beneath the surface of the gas giant’s volcanic moon, Io, and into the world of cyclones playing

Petzl has been making headlamps since 1973, so you might say they know what they are doing! A lamp body, a battery pack, and an elastic headband is what make

A huge family of newborn stars seem to now be going their separate ways: Over 1,000 stars are hurriedly fleeing their nest in record time, leading to something of a

This spectrograph map, generated from data collected by NASA’s New Horizons probe, depicts the relatively uniform brightness of the ultraviolet “Lyman-alpha” background surrounding our Sun and its area of influence.

NASA is asking private industry and academia for ideas for new rescue services for its astronauts on Earth in the event of emergencies during rocket launches, spacecraft free flight or