Sharmila Kuthunur

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.

This New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home its first detailed telemetry data soon after its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun.

2024 has been another challenging year for Earth's climate, marked by record temperatures, extreme weather events, and urgent warnings from scientists about the accelerating pace of global warming.

A NASA spacecraft has survived a historic close fly of the sun. The mission team received a beacon tone from the Parker Solar Probe, signaling it was still functioning after the record approach.

If all goes to plan, the sun should give NASA's Parker Solar Probe a hard time.

Tune into a live webinar on Dec. 19 as several cultural and scientific icons will answer questions about mysteries of the universe and space travel from an Antarctica-bound luxury expedition vessel.

The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere after all, according to new research.

India continues to perfect hardware and recovery procedures for its Gaganyaan human spaceflight program.

On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will break its own records for speed and closest approach to the sun.

Two giant asteroids that struck Earth about 36 million years ago did not cause any long-lasting shifts to our planet's climate, according to new research.