Astronomers are closely tracking asteroid 2024 XN1, which is set to pass by Earth on December 24, 2024, just in time for Christmas Eve.

With their eyes fixed on the sky, the ancient Greeks formed constellations through noticing shapes in the stars.

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed 20-year-old Hubble observations that could finally explain how ancient stars can ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is NASA’s one of the oldest telescopes which is still up and running, providing insights into deep ...

A strange star has revealed to astronomers a mysterious past — one that involves the merger of two ancient suns.

NASA's findings reveal the universe's future. Discover Voyager's billion-year journey, dark energy enigmas, and humanity's ...

The 2024 release marks the first time since the 1980s that these beautiful birds have lived in the wild. The release is the ...

"We must rethink how we create computer models for planet formation and early evolution in the young universe." ...

Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.

Conventional wisdom assumes the ratio of gases in a planet's atmosphere should match the ratio of gases in the natal disk that birthed it. For the first time, researchers compared gases in a ...

See the year’s most striking images from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, NASA’s Mars rover and the best sky ...

That's right: Astronomers suspect the two stars in D9 will soon merge into a single star because of the close-by gravity. They are estimated to be only about 2.7 million years old — for comparison, ...