NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a massive galaxy known as UGC 285, 232 million light-years from Earth, that could be nicknamed the "Godzilla galaxy" due to its massive size.
Since its launch in April 2018, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found a great number of exoplanets, including a so-called "missing link." But now, the alien planet hunter has discovered its first Earth-sized planet in a star's "habitable zone," an area that could allow for liquid water to be on the surface.
Archaeologists have found a Maya stone palace that dates to more than 1,000 years ago, according to the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
In the midst of the Quadrantid meteor shower, NASA astronaut Christina Koch captured a stunning image of several meteors zooming through the atmosphere.
Scientists have described how, for the first time, a space station astronaut’s blood clot was successfully treated by doctors more than 200 miles away on Earth.
2020 may be a big year for NASA with a number of upcoming projects, but the year is off to a rocky start for the space agency, as it announced it lost contact with the ASTERIA satellite, a small spacecraft that's designed to look for planets outside the Solar System.
New photos show a mysterious shipwreck slowly ‘disappearing’ into Lake Michigan. Up to half of the wreck has now been reclaimed by the Great Lake, according to researchers.
No one really knows what happens inside an atom. But two competing groups of scientists think they've figured it out. And both are racing to prove that their own vision is correct.
2019 was a banner year for NASA, as the space agency announced plans to return to the Moon, celebrated the first-ever all-female spacewalk and commemorated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. 2020 appears to be just as, if not more action-packed, with a new rover headed to Mars, the continued preparation for the 2024 return to the Moon and a host of other projects.
