Near the crowded heart of the Milky Way, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked out a dense, turbulent pocket of gas that ...

A new year for sky-watchers begins with Jupiter coming into opposition on January 10th.  This means that Jupiter appears to ...

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

For decades, astronomers treated starlight and dust as a simple conveyor belt, a steady wind that carried the raw ingredients ...

Astronomers combined data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory to create a stunning new image of two merging spiral ...

In the remote northwestern corner of Alaska sits Nome, a frontier town where gold rush history meets otherworldly landscapes that would make George Lucas do a double-take. You know that feeling when ...

Lineups of planets have often attracted attention for their supposed effects on human affairs—and for several days in early January, five solar system bodies are arranged in a n ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth ...

Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a ...