Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN)'s backdrop is dominated by the Eagle Nebula — a vast cosmic structure of dust and hydrogen-rich gas ...

The eighth day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features a young star cluster carving out space inside a ...

At least two ingredients are needed to make jets — rotation and magnetic fields — and these produce the ubiquitous laserlike jets we see.

New 3I/ATLAS images from NASA and the ESA suggest the interstellar comet is active as it approaches Earth in December.

Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020.

The twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory mark 25 years of discovery as students name distant nebula Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lan.

Due to the costs and duration of the Hubble project, NASA was under pressure. At the end of 1995, it released a photo that ...

Due to the costs and duration of the Hubble project, NASA was under pressure. At the end of 1995, it released a photo that ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

Both of Friday’s Astronomical Unit lectures are related to celestial phenomena not discernible to human senses. David ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

Astronomer Michael R. Blanton will join the Carnegie Science Observatories as its 12th director, overseeing astronomical ...