A blazing fireball lit up the night sky over Texas on Sunday, sparking confusion, awe-and a flood of social media posts-as residents across the state looked skyward.

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

As with many big space stories, 3I/ATLAS is getting a fair share of attention as well as some more controversial theories ...

“Interstellar objects may be able to jump start planet formation, in particular around higher-mass stars,” Pfalzner said in a ...

Recent scientific breakthroughs have unlocked the enigmatic core of black holes, a phenomenon that has fascinated and ...

On the day of the 2025 autumnal equinox, the sun rises almost exactly due east and sets to the west. The months that follow ...

On the morning of September 20, 2025, the highly anticipated 49th lecture of the 'Doctor Talks Science' series—'The Wonderful Journey of Black Holes and Spacetime'—was held at the Qujing Science and ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

JWST data hints that Trappist-1e may have an atmosphere. More transits will test if this world could support liquid water. Recent observations with NASA’s advanced JWST telescope have revealed a ...

Telescopes on the National Mall tonight will give people a chance to see the stars and experience the largest astronomy outreach event in the United States.

Astronomers have witnessed a rare “extremely stripped supernova” that exposed the inner silicon layers of a dying star, confirming theories of stellar fusion and offering new insight into how ...

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...