The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

In a cosmic first, McClure and her team stared deep into the gas disk around the baby star and detected solid specks condensing — signs of early planet formation. A gap in the outer part of the disk ...

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda galaxy. Zoom in and explore.

Comet 31/ATLAS, a rare interstellar object, may be 7 billion years old and could reveal secrets about the early Milky Way and planetesimal formation processes.

Everything about the Infinity Galaxy, recently discovered by the JWST, is strange. One odd feature could be the 1st evidence ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Astronomers have captured the earliest moments of rocky planet formation around a young sun-like star, offering a ...

A bitter public dispute between Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and the New York lawyer representing a son of drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has raised speculation ...

From the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs to one that nearly hit Moscow, space rocks have shaped our history. Could we ...

The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...

"The existence of any vesicles on Titan would demonstrate an increase in order and complexity, which are conditions necessary ...