"We're seeing what could be described as an energetic tug-of-war inside the black hole's accretion flow." ...

NASA spots a rare, glowing gourd-like structure racing at one million mph—then watches it transform in the blink of an eye ...

'This is something we’ve never seen in stars that are analogs of stars in the early universe,' an astronomer said.

NASA’s Hubble telescope has captured rare images of newborn stars hidden inside dusty cosmic clouds, revealing how massive ...

Far from Earth, a small robotic explorer has just delivered a surprise that planetary scientists have never seen up close before. As it races toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, NASA’s Lucy probe has ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into one dazzling mosaic. Half a year after first opening its eyes to the cosmos ...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of object that is a starless cloud that failed to form as a galaxy. Here's what to ...

NASA has unveiled a breathtaking new image showing what appears to be a massive “cosmic hand” stretching across 150 light-years of space, created by one of the galaxy’s most powerful electromagnetic ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uses near-infrared imaging to penetrate dust clouds, revealing the formation of massive ...

Astronomers using Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new type of cosmic object that is believed to be a “failed galaxy”. Dubbed ‘Cloud-9’, the astronomical curiosity is a cloud of dark ...

A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN ...

The 21st century is featuring a second space age that is increasingly private.