With its unparalleled resolution, Webb shows never-before-seen structural details and features as massive stars are only just being born.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and still only spacecraft to fly by Uranus, offering humanity its first close-up look at this mysterious, icy giant. Orbiting over 1.8 billion miles from Earth, ...

Despite the White House's desire to cancel the Space Launch System, the Artemis program's primary launch vehicle, NASA continues to test the rocket.

UF students are bending metal with lasers to build massive structures in orbit Date: July 2, 2025 Source: University of Florida Summary: UF engineers, backed by DARPA and NASA, are perfecting ...

Space.com sat down recently with retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts to talk about space, politics and his run in Texas for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary have arrived at the International Space Station, ferried there by SpaceX on a private flight.