After exploding, the craft sent blazing debris across the sky and forced multiple aircraft flying over and near the Caribbean ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

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These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA’s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa. SpaceX’s Starship achieved its first successful landing, a critical ...

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early ...

The lanes and clouds of dust in the star-forming Orion Nebula (M42) reveal a dark dimension to this familiar object.

Just past 2 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...

This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from in the first place.

The Red Planet reaches its best position all year this week on January 15. Here’s how and when to get out and see it.

Astronomical observatories use several techniques to compensate for distortions in images caused by our atmosphere.