The Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovered the dwarf galaxy Aquarius IV and the star cluster Rubin-GC1 in preliminary ...

Good morning, this is Abel. Today's main story is the first close-up image taken by the European probe Hera of the binary ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already uncovered two previously unknown companions of the Milky Way using preliminary observations covering just 7% of the night sky. The discoveries include an ...

NASA's Swift Observatory will burn up this week. And while the agency has a lot of experience losing beloved hardware, it never gets easier.

Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have identified evidence for a supernova remnant located about ...

A spiral galaxy roughly 10 million light-years from Earth is offering astronomers a rare glimpse into the forces that shape ...

Before 2026 ends, stargazers in the US will have a chance to witness the peaks of five more meteor showers, including the ...

Last week, we explored the wonders of our universe, from Perseverance's record-setting journey across Mars and the city of ...

Discover how Webb's vivid image of N159 offers scientists a time machine to the universe's first light, revealing star ...

If you ask planetary astronomers where the solar system ends, they will say well past the planets, well past the bright band of the Kuiper Belt where Pluto resides, and still further to a shadowy ...

Scientists with the U.S. National Science Foundation have identified a large object in the outer reaches of the solar system that they identified as a possible dwarf planet. Data analysis shows that ...

Why does anything rotate at all in space? To answer this question, we first need to understand how objects spin. Spinning has ...