The Hubble image, released Friday, shows the distant galaxy as it began its transit behind a star and its circumstellar disk of orbiting debris.
Jupiter, Saturn and Venus will be clearly visible this month with no telescope.
A bunch of volunteers found a faint object in space that scientists missed: a brown dwarf that is halfway between a star and a planet.
Data from NASA’s Curiosity rover showed conditions varying among different depths of the lake in Gale Crater on Mars that existed over three billion years ago.
The SpaceX cargo mission for NASA, scheduled for a Thursday evening launch to resupply the International Space Station, will carry the upgrade module.
The latest evidence of surface frost was found by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been orbiting the moon since 2009.
Lightning forced SpaceX to reschedule the launch of its resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Wednesday's NASA announcement was also a ceremony honoring Eugene N. Parker, for whom mission to the sun was renamed.
Robert Bigelow, the founder of Bigelow Aerospace, won a $17.8 million contract from NASA in 2013.
A fire burns differently in space, so NASA is going to light up the space station to watch the flames burn — for purely scientific reasons, of course.
NASA will be making a live announcement Wednesday morning about its mission to the sun.
Bigelow Aerospace founder and president Robert Bigelow recently spoke with '60 Minutes' and discussed his long-held belief that alien UFOs have and are visiting Earth. But he's not just another UFO enthusiast, Bigelow has privatized piles of relevant evidence. Whatever he knows, he should tell us.
We can’t say yes or no with certainty, but new findings made by NASA’s Curiosity rover extend the time frame in which life as we know it could have existed on the red planet.
The upcoming SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station, scheduled for a June 1 launch, will carry a new instrument from NASA.
These detailed photos of mars show how incredible the planet really is.
One of NASA's lunar observation crafts was hit by a meteoroid but was unharmed.
A NASA craft that studies the sun captured a partial solar eclipse Thursday.
On three days in June and July, scientists will train their telescopes and cameras on a small object over 4 billion miles away, as it passes in front of different stars.
JFK was aiming high when he asked Congress to send a man to the moon.
A star suffered an epic fail when it quietly collapsed into a black hole instead of exploding in a brilliant supernova.
NASA's jet propulsion lab announced new findings about Jupiter on Thursday. The mission revealed beautiful photos from NASA's Juno.
The spacecraft made its first close pass of Jupiter Aug. 27, 2016, and findings based on the analysis of data collected were made public Thursday.