If you're hoping for a festive skywatching surprise, Christmas week is shaping up to be more active than usual in space. Fast ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has gotten a rare peek at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve ...

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Early risers across North America and Europe may spot a bright, silent light gliding across the Christmas sky — and it just ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

From an interstellar comet to breathtaking auroras and from brand-new rockets to iconic space telescopes, here are some of our favorite images from the cosmos in 2025 ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...

One side of TOI-561 b is constantly locked towards its star, and the observations showed that this face is very cool for such a closely orbiting planet. A thick atmosphere must be transferring heat ...