Think this space station and moon photo is AI? Meet the photographer.

It's real, and spectacular. The International Space Station is nowhere close to the moon, which is about 1,000 times farther…

Webb telescope has a new mission: surveillance of a threatening asteroid

“We have to do our due diligence.” The most powerful space telescope ever built is peering into some of the…

Scientists seek to tempt aliens out of hiding with chemical in blood

What's lurking in the Martian soil? Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant…

'Large' asteroid's odds of hitting Earth went up. But not why you think.

“It's not surprising the percentage went up.” It’s certain that recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 will swing close to Earth…

Astronomers found a monstrous jet powering through the early universe

It set a new cosmic record. Scientists have found a quasar spewing a gigantic radio jet in space at a…

Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass

And that's not all Gaia detected. A Milky Way-surveying spacecraft found a planet 12 times more massive than Jupiter, along…

This giant planet formed in a strange way, scientists find

“Nothing like that of Earth.” The distant world WASP-121b is so hot that it hosts metallic clouds and rains gems.…

An object left a big gash on Mars. It also spawned a quake.

Boom! Quakes shake Mars all the time. But many of these temblors originate in outer space. NASA’s InSight lander recorded…

NASA scientists want to solve a mystery: Why did life “turn left?”

Asteroid Bennu isn't playing nice with a leading scientific hypothesis. When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently…

Private spacecraft gets dramatic view of Earth eclipsing moon

Blue Ghost did some sightseeing in orbit. A robotic spacecraft has beamed home crisp videos and snapshots of Earth eclipsing…