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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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