Peering into the early universe, astronomers uncovered a surprise: a young galaxy that looks a lot like our home, the Milky Way.

A mesmerizing new image shows a "space butterfly" appearing to soar against a background of stars.

A NASA team, using data from a European satellite program, helped map the devastation caused when an explosion rocked Beirut, Lebanon on Aug. 4.

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket for small satellites should be ready to launch for the first time this fall, company representatives said.

A famed asteroid observatory overcame a tropical storm to determine the threat level of a space rock zooming by Earth. Happily, in both cases everything worked out just fine.

Lurking just below the atmosphere of Venus is a wall of acid clouds that whip around the planet at speeds close to that of a commercial air jet on Earth.

Marsquakes recorded by NASA's InSight mission offer the first direct evidence of key boundaries in the Martian interior, which could help planetary scientists understand how rocky planets are formed.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to send 57 more Starlink satellites into space early Friday morning (Aug. 7). Here's how to watch it live.

When NASA's powerful Perseverance rover lifted off into space on July 30, a satellite and a robotic telescope caught unique views of the mission on its way to Mars.

A new set of phone cases, Apple Watch bands and other trinkets allows you to carry your love for NASA with you everywhere you go.

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft practically came alive during its dramatic dive through Earth's atmosphere on Sunday (Aug. 2), its NASA crew reported.

Virgin Galactic passengers will have to wait until at least 2021 for the first flight opportunities.

A new NASA space observatory could push planet-hunting forward at warp speed by gathering data up to 500 times faster than the venerable Hubble Space Telescope does.

Arianespace plans to send a satellite-servicing vehicle — along with two satellites — into space on Friday (July 31). You can watch the festivities live from French Guiana.

The actor who played astronaut Captain Kirk on "Star Trek" hinted during an online San Diego Comic-Con panel that he may be interested in going to space.

For the first time ever, NASA's Perseverance rover will collect the sounds of Mars — starting as the spacecraft plummets through the atmosphere to its landing site at Jezero Crater.

Just over 45 years since the last American astronaut splashed down in the ocean, NASA and its partner SpaceX are set to land astronauts in the sea again on Aug. 2.

While the media often talks about what goes wrong on a Mars mission, what's more remarkable is the number of things that go right thanks to testing before launch here on Earth.

Here are all the major milestones of the Mars 2020 mission to the Red Planet, from launch to landing.

A strong greenhouse effect allows these "super-Earth" exoplanets to masquerade as "mini-Neptunes."

A future Venus rover could be decked out with steampunk-esque rollers and fenders.

NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken are about to emerge back in the black.

Two NASA spacewalkers swapped out batteries on the International Space Station today (July 16), nearly completing the replacement work needed to keep the orbiting lab powered through at least 2024.