An international team of astronomers on Monday announced the discovery of a large asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Earth,...
Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program...
A spooky spider web, magical dragons or wispy trails of ghosts? What do you see in this image of the...
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered an important new clue about...
When a star explodes (a supernova), it sends its intense burst of light out in all directions. On rare occasions,...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was specially designed to detect the faint infrared light from very distant galaxies and give...
Pictures of the sky can show us cosmic wonders; movies can bring them to life. Movies from NASA’s NEOWISE space...
An Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf—the most common type of star in the universe—appears to have no atmosphere at...
If an alien were to look at Earth, many human technologies – from cell towers to fluorescent light bulbs –...
A gas giant exoplanet with the density of a marshmallow has been detected in orbit around a cool red dwarf...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope to look back in time at the early universe, astronomers discovered a surprise: a...
NASA hit a bullseye in late September with DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which flew a spacecraft straight at...
