The Houthi rebels launched another strike on Israel, following a missile attack on Tel Aviv. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) ...

Sharpless 2-106 is a nebula several light-years across, seen here by Hubble in 2011. It lies 2,000 light-years away, in a ...

Back when the stars in our universe were initially being formed, they created rotating disks of dust and gas known as ...

Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.

It's a cosmic Christmas! NASA just released new images of a nearby star cluster that resembles a wreath and another that ...

The sun was once personified as a god, a symbol of a perfect cosmos. The occasional detection of dark blemishes was ...

This image from the James Webb Space Telescope features a bright H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite ...

A pair of NASA astronauts who have been stuck at the International Space Station since June will have to wait a little longer ...

International researchers recently spotted a pair of stars orbiting around one another in surprisingly close proximity to Sagittarius A*.

John Steele Gordon on “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party” by Edward Dolnick.

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

The last meteor shower of the year peaks a few days before Christmas. While usually not a bright shower, the Ursids can yield ...