"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this information like a cosmic DNA test.

NASA finds flickering coronal loops signal solar flares, paving the way for better space weather predictions and safety ...

European Southern Observatory Director General Xavier Barcons told Space.com that astronomers expect the project to brighten ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission is gearing up for an exciting journey aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aiming to uncover the mysteries of the universe's early moments and the origins of water on planets. Over ...

Astronomers are raising concerns about the impact of light pollution from a renewable energy project on the world’s most ...

When the Eaton Fire flared up Jan. 9, flames climbed to the summit of Mount Wilson northeast of LA. What happened next was a ...

The “ghost towns,” named Sculptor A, B, and C, consist of three faint and ultra-faint galaxies about 6.5 million light-years ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

Nick Hague and Suni Williams spent six hours working on NICER, AMS and other equipment outside the International Space ...

Pandora, NASA's newest exoplanet mission, is one step closer to launch with the completion of the spacecraft bus, which ...