A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex ...

Discovered late last year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 was predicted at one point to have a 3% chance of smacking Earth in 2032.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed images of asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth object that initially raised concerns.

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

NASA has put its recently launched SPHEREx space telescope into operation. The scientific mission is due to begin at the end ...

The Euclid space telescope has spotted 26 million galaxies in just one week of observations. The European Space Agency (ESA) ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...