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NASA’s space telescopes and observatories bring humanity unrivaled science images and scientific discoveries. Here’s what should be next.

Comparing Elon Musk’s Mars rocket to NASA’s new ride.

Could life be widespread throughout the cosmos, in the subsurface oceans of ice-covered worlds? NASA’s Europa Clipper mission investigates.

Launched in March, the PUNCH mission has viewed two incredible coronal mass ejections, tracking them farther from the Sun than ever before.

NASA’s minivan-sized drone is scheduled to search for signs of life on Titan in 2034.

The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was originally seen as a colossal mistake. This one image, taken in 1995, changed everything.

NASA astrophysics, which gave us Hubble, JWST, and so much more, faces its greatest budget cut in history. All future missions are at risk.

The most iconic, longest-lived space telescope of all, NASA’s Hubble, is experiencing orbital decay as the solar cycle peaks. Here’s why.

NASA’s only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want to kill it?

After drastic cuts to the NIH, the FDA, the NSF, and the DOE, NASA science faces down its smallest budget ever. All of society will suffer.

The threats Mars astronauts face — and how NASA is working to solve them.

These microbes endured the unlivable. The NASA astrobiologist who studies them reveals what that means for us today

To know how to protect its astronauts, NASA needs to first understand the threat.

NASA’s Juno mission, in orbit around Jupiter, occasionally flies past its innermost large moon: Io. The volcanic activity is unbelievable.

“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”

As US science faces record cuts to funding, jobs, and facilities, these 10 quotes help remind us how science brings value to us all.

Is information intrinsic in our universe? NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains.

NASA gave three robots plans for a moon shelter, and the robots figured out how to build it.

The case for why NASA should pivot to searching for current — not ancient — signs of life.

These missions will put us one step closer to the ultimate goal: crewed trips to Mars.

Reusable rockets, moon landers, civilian astronauts, and more.

Back in 1970, Sister Mary Jucunda wrote NASA, decrying large investments in science. A former Nazi’s legendary response is still relevant.

Most leaders get the psychology of human motivation all wrong — here’s how a presidential encounter with a leaf-sweeper puts it right.

Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it’s a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.

The record-breaking transmission could revolutionize deep space communication.

These startups, space agencies, and aerospace giants are building humanity’s next off-world homes.

From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.

Ring galaxies are rare, but we think we know how they form. A new, early-stage version, the Bullseye galaxy, provides a new testing ground.

Featuring SpaceX’s “Mechazilla,” a first-of-its-kind spacewalk, and more.

JWST’s revolutionary views arrive in high-resolution at infrared wavelengths. Without NASA’s Spitzer first, it wouldn’t have been possible.