As the administration slashes spending on science, NASA is running low on new missions.

The 47% budget cut would obliterate NASA's science program, experts say.

NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...

The current attacks on the U.S. system of scientific research will have real and debilitating consequences for our nation and its international position that will not be easily turned around ...

Most of the employees whose jobs have been taken away in the latest wave of layoffs are in senior-level government ranks with ...

Scientists have proposed a wild new theory at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham - Earth, along with the entire Milky Way galaxy, may be situated within a ...

Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...

Sedna, a distant dwarf planet three-quarters the size of Pluto, is inching toward the brightest star in our sky — and in 2076 ...

The object is big – possibly as wide 12 miles, larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs – and is speeding ...

Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Experts tell Live Science how they are planning to observe ...

To do otherwise would be to cede U.S. leadership in space and science to China and other nations.” In so many words, all living former leaders of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate issued a remarkable ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.