On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, ...

Space scientists within NASA and outside it feel betrayed by the Trump administration’s changes at the agency, which was ...

Last week, we discussed the Dog Star, Sirius, the sky’s brightest star. Orbiting Sirius is a faint companion, a tiny star known informally as the Pup.

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

A new asteroid that was discovered hurtling towards Earth in December has the highest odds of a collision to date, according ...

Scientists have identified a colossal superstructure of dark matter, marking a significant advancement in cosmological ...

Despite its whimsical name, Quipu (pronounced “kee-poo”) is the largest confirmed superstructure in the universe to date in ...

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...