After exploding, the craft sent blazing debris across the sky and forced multiple aircraft flying over and near the Caribbean ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

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Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early ...

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from in the first place.

Near the Moon’s eastern limb lies Mare Crisium — the Sea of Crises — a low basalt plain embayed by rugged mountains. Carved by a colossal impact some 3.9 billion years ago, the 460-mile-wide ...

For millions of years following the Big Bang, after the universe’s roiling soup of particles had cooled, the cosmos was a dark and boring place. There were no stars to make light. No familiar ...

Just past 2 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...

In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA’s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa. SpaceX’s Starship achieved its first successful landing, a critical ...

The lanes and clouds of dust in the star-forming Orion Nebula (M42) reveal a dark dimension to this familiar object.

This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.