Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have captured a stunning image of a "cosmic jellyfish." This aquatic-creature-like galaxy, designated COSMOS2020-635829, was seen as it existed ...

Space is full of surprises, and in 2025, astronomers witnessed one of the most extraordinary events ever registered: a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that lasted seven ...

Charleston, SC, astronomy professor answers questions from high school students about wormholes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space odors and more.

Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...

Far out in the dark between the stars, a small visitor is carving a path through our solar system and leaving behind patterns that look disturbingly deliberate. The interstellar object known as ...

The interstellar visitor, only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar system, ignited controversial ...

HOUSTON—A new research analysis of a sample of Mars gathered by NASA’s Curiosity rover and initially studied by onboard instrumentation has determined that non-biological sources once considered ...

Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics ...

University of Chicago researchers have begun examining data collected by a device transported by a NASA balloon that flew ...

Using an advanced machine-learning algorithm, researchers in the UK and Japan have identified several promising candidate locations for the long-lost landing site of the Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft.

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