Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth.

Two researchers from an astrophysics institute in Pune have discovered one of the most distant spiral galaxies ever observed - a massive, well-formed system that existed when the universe was just 1.5 ...

The Geminids peak Dec. 13, producing up to 120 meteors per hour visible from 8 p.m. until sunrise. Plus, a recap of ...

Later in December, the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet will get as close to Earth as it ever will. Here's what to know.

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

As a space reporter for The New York Times, I follow what’s happening in the stars, including eclipses, meteor showers and ...

Polar auroras (northern lights or aurora borealis in the northern hemisphere and southern lights or aurora australis in the ...

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

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

There are roads measured not by kilometers, but by the pulse of the heart. Such are the roads leading to our historic ...

A scientist analyzing Fermi telescope data found a strange glow around the Milky Way that looks like it could be coming from ...