The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

Astronomers have obtained detailed images of two protoplanets forming around the PDS 70 star system, located 370 light-years away in the Centaurus constellation. These planets are still surrounded by ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

Astronomers track the sun's 11-year cycle by counting sunspots. Also, we're expecting a strong geomagnetic storm and aurora ...

Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

Astronomers have finally traced a strange class of radio signals—long a cosmic mystery—to a binary star system made up of a ...

One of the most closely watched astronaut missions came to a dramatic close this week as NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore made their triumphant return.

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and the Sun on Saturday in a rare event called an inferior conjunction, though it will be difficult to see without special equipment. This alignment occurs every 19 ...

New satellite data has shed light on how mysterious gravitational forces may have shaped the universe. The first survey data ...

The final act of the Blue Ghost lander's busy two weeks on the moon was to send back sunset shots featuring Earth and Venus.

For half a decade, a mysterious television signal appearing to come from the sky left astronomers scratching their heads. Was ...