Chelsea Gohd

In 2020, astronomers thought they'd found something incredible: the second so-called Earth Trojan asteroid ever seen. Now, a new team of researchers has confirmed that it's real.

The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a stellar look at a strange cosmic starburst.

A Mars probe has snapped a peculiar image of the Red Planet's surface that looks like a giant tree stump, rings and all.

SpaceX has won a contract, worth over $102 million, to transport military supplies and humanitarian aid around the world using a rocket.

Could we send a spacecraft to the giant, cigar-shaped interstellar interloper 'Oumuamua? Should we?

Sci-fi fan-favorite Alan Tudyk is here to save humankind with pizza.

It's been a month since the James Webb Space Telescope launched to space. Revisit its last days on Earth in a stunning new timelapse video.

After traveling almost a million miles, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reached its final destination today (Jan. 24).

Axiom, a start-up based in Houston, Texas, and SpaceX have agreed to work together to fly three private astronauts along with a fourth mission commander to the International Space Station.

Almost a decade after retiring from NASA, Michael López-Alegría is once again strapping in to launch to the final frontier.

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has temporarily stopped its science observations while the mission team investigates an issue.

A SpaceX resupply ship will have to wait at least one more day before returning to Earth.

Tonga's volcanic eruption has left behind damage so severe that satellites can see it from space.

Satellites orbiting Earth captured a powerful undersea eruption in Tonga from space on Thursday (Jan. 13).

2021 was another record-setting year, ranking as the sixth hottest year on record. Following a trend, these past eight years have also been the eight hottest years on record.

A rare type of white dwarf star has been erupting in the most extreme superflares of its kind ever seen, researchers find in a new study.

A newly discovered "mini" supermassive black hole could help reveal some of the secrets behind the biggest black holes in the cosmos.

Stretching thousands of light-years across the Milky Way, a newly discovered filament of hydrogen named Maggie is one of the biggest structures ever discovered in our galaxy.

A meteor hurtling through Earth's atmosphere exploded over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on New Year's Day (Jan. 1).

Thanks to images from a robotic Earth telescope, you can now watch the James Webb Space Telescope travel through space.

The James Webb Space Telescope has unwrapped its sunshield, crossing another important item off of its lengthy and risky deployment to-do list.

Amid all the excitement, there is no shortage of nerves ahead of the launch of the world's most powerful telescope.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is excited to see the James Webb Space Telescope open up the "secrets of the universe," he told Space.com.

What's the secret ingredient that has supported scientists at NASA in creating the most powerful space telescope in history? Music.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is currently poised to launch and become the most powerful telescope in space. But how will its photos compare to Hubble's?