UC San Diego alumni are soaring to great heights in 2026 — including space!On Feb. 13, NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and three ...

A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like ...

Crew-12 has successfully launched from Florida. NASA confirms the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is fully loaded and ready for launch.

Hubble’s latest image reveals a young pre planetary nebula where a dying star expels dust and light. Why does this brief phase matter so much for understanding stellar evolution?

Hen 2-427 is considered a Wolf-Rayet class star. Such stars were named after astronomers Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet.

NASA and SpaceX's Crew-12 mission is set to launch 4 astronauts to the International Space Station. Here's when and how to ...

According to a leading theory, black holes form when massive stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, triggering an explosive ...

The Egg Nebula, located around 1,000 light years away, is home to a dying star entering last phase of its life.

Profile Editor Gussie Coulter is joined by former Chief Historian at NASA, Dr Roger D. Launius, to explore common misconceptions surrounding the program, its geopolitical context, and how it relates ...

NASA and SpaceX will both provide live coverage of the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station. Here's how to ...

41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak is now known to be in the Jupiter family of comets, going from a little inside Jupiter's orbit to almost as far as Earth on its 5.4-year orbit. It is notable for its large ...

First its rotation slowed between March and May 2017, taking 46 hours to complete a spin where it had once taken only 20 hours. This occurred as the comet neared its closest point to the sun, roughly ...