Scientists using JWST have uncovered striking cloud formations and extreme heat contrasts on LTT 9779 b, a rare ultra-hot ...

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

NASA is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency ...

A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

But Hilda “Billy” Hewlett was ticking off aviation firsts while Johnson was still learning her ‘three Rs’. Born in Vauxhall in 1864, Hewlett was approaching her 40s when the Wright brothers first ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space, but their mission in interstellar ...

For more than 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals coming from the Helix Nebula, a cloud of gas ...

For Virginia residents, Captain Pell’s represents a local treasure, a place that showcases the bounty of the nearby ...

Hidden in plain sight along Fairfax Boulevard sits a seafood sanctuary that locals have been quietly treasuring for years – ...

Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25, ...

Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn’s moons, and Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. Each spacecraft still has three instruments ...