Lawmakers proposed cutting any spending limits and expanding the list of allowable purchases in a new Empowerment Scholarship ...

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

Pope Leo XIV meets with Argentina's President Javier Milei on the occasion of a private audience, at the Vatican, Saturday, June 7, 2024.

ESA’s new Flyeye telescope is set to transform asteroid detection, spotting potentially hazardous space rocks faster than ...

EarthCARE’s first year reveals new insights into clouds, aerosols, and Earth’s energy balance, reshaping climate science.

Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and Messier 57. With Webb, the researchers could see a compact dust cloud ...

Does Donald Trump have the political capital this time around to actually gut the Endangered Species Act in perpetuity?

The plans allow companies and others to get permits to harm or kill a certain number of protected species if they take other ...

A glacier in Antarctica is rapidly redirecting ice from a neighboring glacier, revealing a new and urgent dynamic in ice flow ...

The members of the crew come from the United States, India, Hungary and Poland, with the latter three countries not having ...

JWST's stunning image of NGC 346 shows that planets in the early universe didn’t form as quickly as theorists thought.

Europe compares favourably with the US on the level of space science it delivers, and Esa has sometimes “gone boldly” where even Nasa has not. Now that Esa has turned 50 years old, it’s a good time to ...