Sharmila Kuthunur

Scientists aim to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the universe using NASA's newest space telescope, SPHEREx, which is set to launch Feb. 28.

"Every centimeter of sea level rise exposes another 2 million people to annual flooding somewhere on our planet."

A mysterious flash of X-ray emission from outside the Milky Way has left astronomers puzzled.

After the space community braced for a brutal shake-up at NASA this week, a last-minute decision on Tuesday (Feb. 18) spared over 1,000 agency employees on probationary status from being dismissed.

Scientists suggest adding jumping exercises to astronauts' training regimens, to minimize the health effects of long space missions, such as moon and Mars trips.

Boeing notified employees it is planning to issue layoff notices "to align with revisions to the Artemis program and cost expectations."

A space-based telescope has captured new images of the sun that showcase one of our star's fiery outbursts — and Mercury is in the picture.

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact."

Solar scientists have found tiny, short-lived jets of energy on our sun to be the primary drivers of the solar wind, marking a step toward better understanding our sun's elusive behavior.

2024 set spaceflight records for the fourth consecutive year with 259 launches worldwide and one launch attempt roughly every 34 hours, according to a recent analysis of the global space economy.

Astronomers are expressing disappointment and alarm as the federally-funded Rubin Observatory altered the biography of renowned astronomer Vera Rubin, for whom the facility is named, on its website.

The James Webb Space Telescope's new image spotlights dust grains in a distant protoplanetary disk, allowing astronomers to study how planets are formed in intricate detail.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab begins normal operations after devastating LA fires as hundreds of employees who were displaced begin rebuilding their lives.

This marks another milestone in the country's pursuit to develop homegrown technology for astronaut missions.

With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own system," scientists said.

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ago, scientists find.

The most detailed panorama of the entire Andromeda galaxy is packed with science that could revolutionize our understanding of how spiral galaxies across the universe form and evolve.

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky."

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the first exquisite images of an interstellar patch of sky, about 11,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.

A massive white dwarf and a sun-like "blue lurker" star tell a remarkable story of what was once a triple-star system in the M67 cluster.

Jets from a distant galaxy could offer fresh clues to how galaxies and their black holes evolve over eons.

Astronomers are now confident the Event Horizon Telescope can help them decode elusive origins of black hole jets.

Satellite images show destruction caused by huge, fast-moving fires raging this week in Southern California.

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost."

The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of 44 individual stars in a gorgeous portrait of a distant galaxy.