When night falls in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, brilliant constellations shine down on the dry plains.

But those claims were quickly met with pushback. Independent analyses of the same JWST data suggested the team's evidence for ...

Asteroid 2023 CX1 was observed in February 2023, seven hours before entering the atmosphere, and disintegrated at a very low latitude above the surface.

SpaceX will launch NASA's ambitious IMAP mission and two other space weather probes early Tuesday morning (Sept. 23), and you ...

Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the ...

They discovered that the Chandra spectrum closely matched what they expected from models of black holes expanding faster than ...

Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...

A companion star may have stripped silicon layers. This provided a new window into stellar death. Astronomers have observed the inner layers of a dying star through a rare type of stellar explosion ...