Earlier this year, a panel of experts from the US National Academies recommended a mission to the ice giant.
Being 161 000 light-years away was no problem for the highly sensitive James Webb Space Telescope, which captured the cosmic arachnid in stunning detail.
The remarkable gold-plated, infrared eyes have been capturing far-flung galaxies as well as shedding light on a bevvy of scientific questions and concerns.
Today is a pretty big day for NASA and, I guess, the world at large. For the first time in 50 years, NASA plans to launch a rocket that can ferry humans to and from the moon.
In the latest budget for the country’s intelligence services, the Pentagon has been requested to focus its UFO investigation in a surprising direction.
NASA released the first track of the void, in a listenable form fit for human ears, and it really is rather unsettling.
While seeing the Cartwheel Galaxy in such clear light is impressive, a new video released by the European Space Agency shows just how incredibly far away it actually is.
JWST has peered into deep space again with its infrared gaze and discovered the “stellar gymnastics in The Cartwheel Galaxy”.
Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface after Neil Armstrong, with the duo becoming the first astronauts to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969.
The JWST views light in the infrared spectrum – on Earth, we can feel infrared light as heat – which allows the instrument to see far, far more of the universe.
Sifting through the public James Webb Space Telescope datasets, stargazers across the planet have been hard at work.
Two private space companies announced to the world that they’re collaborating on an ambitious joint venture to be the first commercial mission to Mars as soon as 2024.
It turns out that all those lovely golden mirrors on the miraculous James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are quite vulnerable to being damaged by space rocks.
The first image was shown to the world on Monday, but little did we know that NASA would be releasing other amazing photos from the first batch throughout yesterday.
As part of the preparations to send the Starship rocket up to space, the booster was undergoing tests at the company’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, when suddenly it went boom.
The James Webb Space Telescope shows us a version of the universe that is chock-a-block with galaxies, some ranging back to an unimaginable time.
The 2022 shortlisted images are nothing short of spectacular, from a mesmerising moonrise moment over an ancient English tower to a surreal shot of the Milky Way above the highest highway in the world.
Jerry Ehman had his ear to the universe on August 15, 1977, working on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence programme, or SETI, when he heard a very interesting signal.
China’s massive ‘Sky Eye’ FAST telescope, the world’s largest alien-hunting radio telescope, seems to have picked up a strange signal which could suggest that there is indeed life beyond Earth.
On Sunday night, the sky above Johannesburg shone bright with strange lights for a moment, leaving many residents wondering what was going on.
Scientists at NASA are curious to see if the second planet from the Sun ever housed any life before, especially considering how similar it is to Earth.
The stationary spacecraft captured its last selfie on April 24, showing just how enveloped its solar panels have become by the planet’s relentless dust.
Incredible discoveries made at a unique North Dakota fossil site have been stacking up, including something that NASA described as “mind-blowing”.
The little chopper is supposed to send regular data to its buddy Perseverance but missed one of the scheduled communications sessions last week.
A California space start-up flung a camera-strapped projectile 7 620 metres into the atmosphere at 1 600 kilometres per hour.
This space company planned to retrieve a rocket booster in mid-air with a helicopter for the first time ever, which they successfully managed, somewhat.
The incredible HiRISE camera captured the coolest and most detailed shot of a Mars crater earlier this year.
There’s a lot that has been conveniently left out of Netflix’s new documentary, ‘Return to Space’, which centres on Elon Musk and SpaceX.
The International Space Station was designed to support a crew of six, according to NASA, but is now home to 11 astronauts.
Apparently, this one of a kind documentary featuring guest star William Shatner will “show the public what’s really happening in our skies with UFOs”.