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.

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

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

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

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 Red Planet comes closest to Earth, disappears behind the Moon in an occultation, and finally reaches opposition in the ...

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.

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

Extractable water near the south pole of our closest celestial neighbor promises a new spark for future space explorers.