This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a glittering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). The galaxy ...

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

New Tarantula Nebula observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are combined with imagery from ...

A group of researchers wants to make the study of UFOs an academic discipline. Experts call them unidentified anomalous ...

The Full moon, the Yule Moon, is on December 4. This is a supermoon, the second largest of 2025. The next evening, the moon ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of stellar nursery 30 Doradus, nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula. The ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Tarantula mating season runs from about July to November, skewing toward October in California. Female tarantulas ...

This week features some incredible phenomena -- an interstellar visitor, a tarantula, a coral-shaped rock, a rosette, and a new moon for ice giant Uranus. Comet 3I/ATLAS is captured in this image by ...

A nebula is a luminescent giant cloud of dust and gas in space that could be from a supernova or could be a star-forming region. The "dumbbell nebula," also known as Messier 27, is what astronomers ...

Wildlife and public safety officials in western U.S. states have issued warnings as tarantula mating season brings a surge of spiders onto trails, parks, and residential areas from August through ...