Take a 3D tour of James Webb Space Telescope's view of the 'Cosmic Cliffs' of the Gum 31 nebula (part of the Carina Nebula ...

A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that ...

Ridley Scott unleashed a terrifying vision that forever changed cinema. "Alien" combined claustrophobic horror with groundbreaking sci-fi elements, ...

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic Array 2000 — could uncover some of the biggest outstanding mysteries in ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

HIP 67522 b, a Jupiter-sized planet, orbits its star in just 7 days. Its closeness disturbs the star’s magnetic field, triggering stellar flares that scorch the planet’s atmosphere ...

These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling ...

An object dubbed 3I/ATLAS is only the third interloper from outside the Solar System seen in all of human history.

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

No, it was a meteorite. For a few brief moments today, a bright fireball lit up the midnight skies above Scotland. The meteor ...