A new image resembling a Christmas wreath captures young stars lighting up dense, dark clouds of dust. The image features NGC 602, a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy to the ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will get closer to the sun than ever before. Astrophysicist Nour Rawafi explains how this mission could help solve the sun's most perplexing mysteries.

The astronauts on the I.S.S. — including two who were scheduled to return months ago — held a zero-gravity cookie-decorating ...

Space station crews spend the holidays away from family and friends, but that doesn’t stop them from celebrating in space.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore celebrated Christmas in high spirits aboard the International Space Station ...

Space is wishing Earth a Merry Christmas from 2,500 light-years away! A NASA telescope combined with data from an X-ray gave ...

The holiday spirit is pervasive and undeniable, with festivities reaching 200,000 light years away. Celestial bodies are celebrating. Just in time for Christmas, NASA spotted a star cluster mimicking ...

Stunning star formations were captured during the holiday season by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space ...

The stranded NASA astronauts are feeling festive this Christmas, despite being thousands of miles away from earth. Sunita "Suni" Williams—who has been stranded in space alongside partner Barry ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The fastest human-made object is hurtling toward the sun at this very moment, approaching speeds of 430,000 mph — and on December 24, it's ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, will approach the sun at 3.8 million miles away, closer than any other man-made ...