Despite President Trump seeking to cut NASA’s science mission budget nearly in half, the agency is set to send up its latest ...

During observations of Pluto, an astonishing discovery gradually emerged—there seems to be ice volcanoes on Pluto. This ...

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...

NASA and South Korea's space agency have agreed to deeper cooperation in space exploration, science and aeronautics, including collaboration on a pioneering mission. New observations from the MeerKAT ...

This cosmic drama offers a unique glimpse into the future fate of our own Solar system and highlights the power of Hubble’s ultraviolet vision to probe stellar remains that would otherwise go ...

Saturn is reclaiming its throne in the night sky and on September 21 will make its closest approach to Earth for the year.

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

University of Virginia astronomy undergraduates focus on the shadows of asteroids and dwarf planets for their Earth-bound ...

New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.

Traditional theories suggest that Pluto's formation process is similar to that of other celestial bodies in the Kuiper Belt, ...