NASA announced the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory concept.

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

The observatory, in fact, took its "first light" pictures on November 17, 2025, thereby confirming that both its Wide Field ...

NASA has taken a major step toward one of its most ambitious science goals as it searches for signs of life on planets beyond ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search their atmospheres for potential signs of life beyond our solar system.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) 2 spacecraft is one of many science missions at NASA targeted for termination in the 2026 budget request. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — Comments by NASA’s ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics are helping to lead planning efforts for NASA’s next major space telescope — and its purpose will be to ...

NASA's Earth-observing satellites captured 12 significant events in 2025, revealing the planet's dynamic systems, from the Palisades fire burn scar in Los Angeles to the aftermath of a glacier ...

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...