Opinion Elon Musk's Starlink flying circus is many things. It's a multi-thousand satellite global internet provider, growing ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

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Makenzie Lystrup’s departure from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL.

This International Dark Sky Park hosts monthly full moon hikes in the most serene setting. And the best news? It's free!

Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...

Chile's Vera Rubin observatory is named for the astronomer who changed the way we think about how galaxies move.

Astronomers used a telescope in Hawaii to find a new object on the outer edges of our solar system, helping to fuel evidence ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

This year, the alert system for defending the planet against incoming space rocks was activated for the first time. It won’t be the last ...

The mind-bending concept of time dilation results from a seemingly harmless assumption—that the speed of light is the same ...

It's out of this world. Or, more accurately, this solar system.On July 1, astronomers discovered an object near the orbit of ...