Astronomers have spotted the farthest spiral galaxy ever seen. Its light has travelled 12.8 billion years to reach Earth.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

Images of the distant spiral galaxy are changing conceptions of the speed and process by which galaxies form.

Under pressure from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force, NASA is cancelling grants and contracts for everything from lunar dust ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed that the planet K2-18b has traces of dimethyl sulfide, a potential ...

It is the single largest element for NASA’s Artemis II mission, slated to ferry a crew of astronauts around the far side of ...

For more than a decade, a robotic explorer has been traveling across Mars, quietly collecting clues about a time when the Red ...

Dr. Mason was a lead investigator in NASA’s Twins Study, which tracked the effects ... One of the biggest discoveries? Space alters gene expression—the way genes are turned on or off inside ...

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS Often outshined by its younger twin rover Perseverance, Curiosity stole back the limelight earlier this week for a monumental discovery based on one of its rock ...

The National Academies’ report says it’s a virtual construct that “mimics the structure, context, and behavior of a natural, engineered or social system.” It says a digital twin is regularly updated ...

Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees compared to the orbit of its two host stars. The discovery, made using the ...