Latest articles by Nola Taylor Tillman
A beautiful image of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor provides insight into how stars form.
NASA's Deep Impact mission was the most-traveled deep-space comet hunter of its time.
The lunar new year kicked off today with the Year of the Pig.
Crashing a giant space rock into a young planet can strip off some or all of its atmosphere, creating a wealth of different types of worlds.
Pioneers 10 and 11, Voyagers 1 and 2, and New Horizons are the only spacecraft currently capable of leaving the solar system. Which one will be the next to go?
The Dawn spacecraft broke several records when it visited Vesta and Ceres in the asteroid belt.
Before their fiery demise, NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft mapped the moon in a quest to learn more about our closest neighbor.
The atmosphere surrounding the largest TRAPPIST-1 planet makes a strong case for it being a rocky world.
The primary mission for NASA's Deep Space 1 was to test out a dozen new advanced technologies. During the spacecraft's ride through space, it also swung by an asteroid and a comet.
Hubble has captured the universe for nearly 30 years. A new report estimates that the telescope will continue to function for at least another five.
One of Earth's nearest exoplanet neighbors, the planet orbiting Barnard's Star, may still have a chance at hosting life, despite its frigid temperatures.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander was a recycled spacecraft that became the first spacecraft to sample water on Mars.
The strong material found in stadium roofs across the globe originated in Apollo spacesuits.
The newest snowman-like image of Ultima Thule (2014 MU69), a pristine object from the dawn of the solar system, is already revealing insights into how planets form.
Only moments before New Horizons flew by the most distant solar system object ever visited, astrophysicist and Queen guitarist Brian May released his new single based on the mission.
The latest New Horizons image of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule reveals its elongated shape.
As 2018 draws to a close, one group of people plans to celebrate something far more unusual — a flyby of Ultima Thule, the most distant solar system object ever explored. Here's what to expect.
From missions to mysterious radio bursts, 2018 has proved a remarkable year in space science.
Gas and dust disks around young stars reveal features that suggest planets are off to an early start.
For hundreds of years the Small Magellanic Cloud has provided astronomers with a relatively close-up view of another galaxy.
A black dwarf is all that is left after a white dwarf star burns off all of its heat, but retains its mass.
