Meghan Bartels

NASA's new high-tech, low-temp observatory observatory is one step closer to gathering some cool science.

Comet Leonard is slipping out of view, but not without putting on one last show.

NASA personnel are spending the day studying the power subsystem of the massive James Webb Space Telescope to ensure the spacecraft is ready to execute a key procedure.

To celebrate the new year, consider taking a day to rest.

As COVID-19 infection rates rise once again, the leaders of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) have canceled the major conference scheduled for early January.

NASA's new space observatory should have enough fuel to keep at science work for significantly longer than mission designs required, according to an agency update.

NASA's new $10 billion observatory is completing a nerve-wracking sequence of steps to reach its final configuration and location. Here's how to follow the process.

The first two seats of the sixth full-fledged NASA crew mission launched by SpaceX have been filled.

NASA's massive new space observatory has entered its most perilous phase yet as it begins the careful process of unfurling its delicate sunshield.

About 60 hours after launch, NASA's next-generation space observatory nailed the second of three required course-correction burns.

The James Webb Space Telescope is truly on its way.

NASA and the astronomy community have poured $10 billion and more than two decades into just one piece of machinery. Now they are facing the moment of truth.

After more than two decades of development, NASA's next-generation space telescope is on the launch pad.

NASA's much-awaited next-generation space telescope is finally ready to launch — just as soon as the weather cooperates.

Rocket woes have again delayed NASA's return to the moon.

Google is celebrating the 315th birthday of Émilie du Châtelet, who was a physicist, translator, philosopher despite the exclusion of women from physics at the time.

Several former employees have gone public with allegations of sexual harassment experienced at SpaceX.

Less than a year after nailing its first interplanetary mission with a flawless Mars orbit insertion, the United Arab Emirates has selected its next destination: the asteroid belt.

Water ice may be lurking just a few feet below the Martian surface at one of the Red Planet's most dramatic sites.

Space exploration doesn't happen in a vacuum. Instead, our ideas of space exploration are shaped by our cultural contexts, according to architecture and urban design professor Fred Scharmen.

The asteroid impact that wiped out most dinosaurs may have taken place during the Northern Hemisphere's spring or early summer, according to new research on the infamous mass extinction.

Something strange is happening to skywatchers' most anticipated comet of the year.

The International Space Station dodged a fragment of a decades-old rocket body early Friday morning, continuing a stretch of space debris threats to the orbiting laboratory.