Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous stream of super-hot gas erupting from a nearby galaxy, driven by a powerful black hole ...

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine have identified what appears to be the largest stream of super-heated gas ever observed in the ...

According to the Big Bang theory, normal matter composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons should account for roughly 5% of ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's philanthropic organization, Schmidt Sciences, is launching the Schmidt Observatory System to ...

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation has announced that veteran NASA astronauts Tom Akers and Joe Tanner will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame® at the annual induction ceremony on May ...

On January 23, skywatchers will witness a beautiful conjunction of Saturn and the Moon. During a conjunction, celestial bodies appear close together in the sky, although they are actually far apart in ...

Fresh off a record-shattering launch cadence in 2025, SpaceX is planning to fly its first rideshare mission of 2026 from ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA's Pandora exoplanet satellite, is scheduled to lift off from ...

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...