On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured variable stars and circumstellar disks in NGC 1333, showing protostars, Orion variable stars, and reflection nebulae in the Perseus Molecular Cloud.

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

On Sunday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stuffed with cargo carried a brand new NASA telescope into space, where it was observed ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

A team of astronomers has just published a detailed catalog of 2,100 stars, considered as potentially hosting planets ...

The Orion Nebula is the closest large star-forming region, located within the Milky Way just 1,500 light-years from Earth.

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

Strange cosmic objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are presently puzzling astronomers. The odd ...

Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn’t strong enough to drive its stellar winds, ...