Space

There was no reason for alarm, as a NASA engineer called it "one of the closest approaches by a known near-Earth object ever recorded." It was only 2,200 miles above the Earth's surface.

Comet C/2022 E3 was first spotted last year and will draw nearest to the Earth in early February, though it's visible now for those with binoculars and telescopes.

Jupiter will be some 367 million miles from Earth on Monday, the closest it's been since 1963. It coincides with Jupiter being on the opposite side of Earth from the sun — when it'll be its brightest.

Learn how to identify stars and constellations in the summer night sky with Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium Director, Mark Breen.

On Tuesday morning, NASA released some of the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built.Just before the reveal, we spoke with one of the space experts at the event about what pictures like this can tell us.

A Burlington company that makes propulsion systems for satellites is expanding to the United Kingdom, seeking to capitalize on the European space industry. At the same time, it's growing its business in Vermont.

For decades, U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts have lived side-by-side aboard the International Space Station. Now some are wondering whether that partnership can withstand the war in Ukraine.

South America and much of the continental United States had the best view of Sunday night's lunar eclipse, which lasted nearly five hours.

A NASA astronaut and the Russian cosmonauts parachute-landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday after a trip back to Earth from the International Space Station, in a rare instance of U.S.-Russia cooperation.

The James Webb Space Telescope will give a glimpse of the earliest galaxies formed after the Big Bang — but only if the telescope is kept frigid. That's why there's a tennis court-sized sunshield.