This image highlights two giant stars, WR 25 and Tr16-244, in the Trumpler 16 cluster, nestled inside the Carina Nebula — a glowing cloud of gas and stars about 7,500 light-years away in the Carina ...

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

In April, scientists captured global attention by announcing they'd found a molecule in a faraway planet's atmosphere that ...

Naturally, the aurora on our solar system's largest planet is hundreds of times brighter and more energetic than our own Northern lights.

Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to rise off Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center Wednesday, carrying a load that cannot be weighed with conventional scales. When the seven astronauts ride the ...

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Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, it's sensed light from a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope have collected first-of-its-kind evidence for cloud formation on ...

Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.

Like a magnetic train on display in the gymnasium at McAdoo-Kelayres Elementary/Middle School, not every science experiment ...