These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

The lanes and clouds of dust in the star-forming Orion Nebula (M42) reveal a dark dimension to this familiar object.

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early galaxies formed.

Just past 2 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...

This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

The Red Planet reaches its best position all year this week on January 15. Here’s how and when to get out and see it.

The key NASA center remains under a mandatory evacuation order, but officials say both it and Mount Wilson are protected for ...

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

Astronomical observatories use several techniques to compensate for distortions in images caused by our atmosphere.

Astronomy can often give us clues to the past that are otherwise lost to history. In one case, an Italian astronomer has proposed that a dramatic total solar eclipse triggered a religious crisis in ...