A team of astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic explosion known as extreme nuclear transients that exceeds ...

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands ...

NASA's car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to ...

Astronauts are known to live on the edge and sometime off it. These pictures show the iconic moments of astronauts pushing ...

A 'city killer' asteroid once predicted to slam into the earth could still pose a "possible danger" to the planet by ...

To make this thousand-color map, astronomers used over 50 hours with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer ( MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. More than 100 exposures were stitched in ...

The Vera Rubin telescope, which is set to open its eyes to the sky later this month, has a 26-foot-wide (8.4 meters) mirror, ...

Findings could imply that the Big Bang would no longer be an isolated event and suggest that every black hole in our universe ...

Scientists aimed ALMA at the comet in March 2024 and saw carbon monoxide — a gas that usually doesn’t show up in observations that far away — gushing out of its surface in jets. The team also picked ...

A chilling new discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests our universe may be living inside a colossal black hole ...

DKIST reveals 20-km wide magnetic striations on Sun’s granules Striations trace fine magnetic field variations in solar photosphere Discovery may improve solar storm and space weather forecasting ...