Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt is turning his fortune toward the stars, pledging to personally bankroll a new ...

NASA has selected two Colorado companies to help develop a future NASA space telescope that will look for signs of life on other planets. The flagship project, called the Habitable Worlds Observatory, ...

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

Astronomers peering through images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered an unusual asteroid spinning so fast ...

But Rubin’s early data is confounding. Among the newly discovered asteroids, researchers identified 76 with reliable spin ...

An artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN45—the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ...

Play Video A new video shows changes in Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured ...

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

Astronomers used gravitational lensing to detect a supernova 10 billion light-years away, providing spatially separated images that help study cosmic expansion and early Universe events.

NASA has released a decades-long video showing Kepler’s supernova remnant evolving in X-rays, using Chandra Observatory data ...

NASA has taken a major step toward one of its most ambitious science goals as it searches for signs of life on planets beyond ...