The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which orbits the Milky Way.

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Both cameras are far more sensitive than the standard cameras used on Earth. NIRCam and MIRI can detect the tiniest amounts ...

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

At an exhibition in the heart of China's capital, Beijing, cosmic data becomes tangible art.

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.

Curiosity stitched 291 Mastcam photos into a color-balanced 360° panorama of Gale Crater’s “boxwork” ridges—spiderweb-like ...

Images of the cosmos, such as the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep space snapshot, make space look chock-full of stuff. In the grand scheme of things, it is, but all those stars, galaxies, planets, ...

After months of anticipation, NASA has unveiled the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images, giving us a breathtaking glimpse into the most distant and mysterious parts of the universe.

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

Dr. Caitlin Casey, an observational astronomer, has recently joined the physics department at UC Santa Barbara. She co-leads the C.O.S.M.O.S. collaboration — a project distinguished by its deep ...