It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

Excess heat is flowing from the north pole of Enceladus, hinting at a careful energy balance deep that may have kept the subsurface ocean stable over geologically significant timescales, boosting its ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Infant galaxies, distant quasars, exploding stars, mysterious black holes, colliding galaxies. Since its launch on ...

A trio of meteor showers sends flashes of light across our skies this month, and the first week will feature the largest and ...

Sunrise and sunset • Rises at 7:31 a.m. and sets at 5:59 p.m. on the 1st (daylight saving time) • Rises at 7:03 a.m. and sets ...

“Full beaver supermoon” is not a combination of words that one encounters often, but this month brings the second of three consecutive supermoons. November’s moon also brings our orbital friend ...

Are you ready to put your guard down and let your heart speak for itself? The truth doesn’t always arrive the way you expect it to. On Oct. 25, Mercury in Scorpio will form a supportive trine to ...

About 70 million light-years away, the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 6951 glows with swirling arms of stars and dust and a radiant golden center. At its heart lies a brilliant circumnuclear starburst ...

Chiron's changing environment, detailed in a paper published Oct. 14 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, could help scientists understand how both small icy objects as well as giant planets like ...