A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...

A team of chemists and astronomers have made a discovery in the field of astrochemistry: the identification of cyanocoronene, the largest polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) ever detected in space.

Similar remnants have been found, like the circumgalactic SNR J0624–6948. But even among those, Teleios stands out. Its circularity exceeds 95%, higher than any other remnants.

Space junk can also find its way to Earth. A piece of a SpaceX Dragon capsule’s trunk was found by a sheepherder in a remote corner of southeastern Australia in July 2022. Last month, SpaceX ...

A chunk of space debris found in N.C. came from a SpaceX capsule, NASA says. The 3-foot, 90-pound piece of a SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle was found by an employee of a mountaintop resort near Asheville.

Astronomers have discovered one of the largest carbon-based molecules found in deep space, located within the Taurus molecular cloud, 430 light-years from Earth.

All around the Universe, clouds of gas and dust swirl between stars, hiding tiny, reactive molecules that could hold answers ...

Scientists will soon begin to answer those questions with the James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts. A new large-scale program will budget ...

The space junk pieces (by this time they had found two) were housed in his clean and organized equipment shed. Although I already knew their size and weight, I wasn’t prepared for how large they ...

A retired NASA Glenn researcher recalls working on Space Station Freedom while he examines a set of plans from 1992 that were found in a garage.