Space

Considered the most powerful telescope in space, It will still be five months before NASA can start receiving its images.

The $10 billion infrared observatory is intended as the successor to the aging Hubble Space Telescope.

The Amazon founder's space company launched the former football player and co-host of ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Saturday morning from West Texas.

West Coast night owls and East Coast early risers will have the best view of the upcoming lunar eclipse this Friday.

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A NASA spacecraft named Lucy has rocketed into the sky with diamonds on a 12-year quest to explore a record-setting eight asteroids.

Hollywood’s Captain Kirk, 90-year-old William Shatner, has blasted into space and safely returned to Earth in a convergence of science fiction and science reality.

As William Shatner prepares to be beamed up at age 90 for his first real-life spaceflight, he’s bringing out the awe in people around a rural Texas spaceport.

The harvest moon is the last full moon of the summer. This year it will appear to be full for three days with peak illumination occurring at 7:54 p.m. ET Monday.

A potentially dangerous asteroid called Bennu has a 1 in 1,750 chance of hitting Earth between now and the year 2300.

The Amazon founder was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer from Texas.

The Hubble Space Telescope is returning to operation more than a month after its original payload computer shut down.

Sir Richard Branson and a crew of three others grazed the edge of space Sunday morning in a rocket built by the British billionaire's company, Virgin Galactic.

For thousands of years, humans have obsessed over Mars from afar. At first, maybe it was the fact that Mars stands out in the night sky b ...