WASHINGTON — Despite budget cuts and programmatic changes that delayed its launch more than a year, NASA’s new asteroid-hunting space telescope rolled out to the pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, ...

A sea of stars takes center stage in the very first photo released from NASA's newest space telescope built to map the entire sky. About 3,000 stars are visible in the new sky image from the ...

LOS ANGELES - NASA has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with access to the Internet to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard ...

NASA's sky-mapping spacecraft has embarked on a new phase in its mission after running out of coolant designed to chill its heat-sensitive instruments. The space agency said Monday that two of the ...

LOS ANGELES — NASA has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with access to the Internet to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard ...

Sappho's "Midnight Poem" describes the night sky over Greece, which has allowed astronomers to accurately calculate when it was written. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ...

Scientists just published a massive map of the night sky speckled with twinkling white lights. But instead of distant stars and constellations, the map actually shows the locations of more than 25,000 ...