"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. ET.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have a front-row seat to some of the most extraordinary sights in the ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, photo of the ...

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking image of the Milky Way from the International Space Station, offering a ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has recorded another amazing achievement. Scientists announced Tuesday that the telescope ...

Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the ...

The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.

NASA’s SPHEREx mission will survey the entire sky in 102 different “colors” of light, offering scientists an unprecedented ...