In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

But now a new study published in Nature suggests a solution to the Little Red Dots mystery. Scientists think young ...

As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global satellite-based mapping system.

Gladys West, who has died aged 95, was the daughter of poor black farmers who in the 1950s and 1960s was instrumental in ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research that is transforming life on Earth and shaping the future of exploration.

What is “down” in the vastness of space? Scientists reveal how gravity, cosmic planes, and perspective redefine direction, ...

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...

Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest supermassive black holes ...

The James Webb Space Telescope snapped its sharpest image of the area around a black hole, solving a long-standing galactic ...

Astronaut Mike Fincke, commander of the International Space Station and a member of the crew NASA is bringing home early next week because of a medical issue, said Sunday he and his crewmates are ...