The final milestone in construction was reached on November 25, as technicians carefully joined the giant telescope's inner ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space ...

NASA released new images of 3I/ATLAS, the third comet ever to be discovered in Earth's cosmic neighborhood originating from ...

NASA's next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

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Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

This image of the Vela Molecular Ridge was captured by SPHEREx and is part of the mission’s first public data release. The yellow patch on the right side of the image is the emission nebula RCW 36, a ...

The 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate raised new and profound questions about the nature and fate of the universe. Based on measurements of the speed of distant ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker. Get the Popular Science daily ...