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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

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

The key NASA center remains under a mandatory evacuation order, but officials say both it and Mount Wilson are protected for ...