The European Space Agency launched the James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas Day 2021 from its facility in French Guiana. A collaboration ...

New telescope observations reveal structural features never documented in any known celestial object The morphology defies conventional understanding. The forward anti-tail persists where physics says ...

NASA has an audacious plan to save a space telescope by using a rocket launched midair from a former passenger airliner.

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...

The first test image from the telescope in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has revealed a previously unnoticed trail of light that could give insight into both the history and abnormalities of the M61 ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

A Platte County man who sexually abused a 5-year-old girl has been sentenced to more than three-and-a-half decades in prison.

From the Show Me State to the stars, Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri. Hubble is credited with ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS sweeps past Mars as NASA’s orbiters and Perseverance reveal fresh clues about its chemistry and ...

A comet hurtling through the solar system from interstellar space is exactly what it appears to be, NASA officials said Wednesday, moving to quash a wave of online speculation.

I/ATLAS offers a rare chance to study material that has travelled billions of kilometres because it originates from another ...