A false-color satellite photo from 2023 shows a devilish pair of lava flows and an enormous plume of smoke spewing from ...

Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the ...

After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered its first new planet.

Mother’s Day Storm? Why not! Bastille Day Storm? Mais oui! Space scientists make the case for a standardized naming ...

The Ring Nebula is a well-known space icon shaped like a doughnut about 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Lyra.. But astronomers think it's been holding a secret that only the ...

The outer space around the Earth is already pretty crowded. Now, tech firms are racing to add more. There are already thousands of satellites hurdling around the Earth in low orbit - many of them ...

When NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of an elliptical galaxy, it caught something else in the frame: A bright, red arc of light wrapped around it.. That glowing curve isn't the ...

Over 6,600 tons of space junk are floating around in Earth's orbit. Fragments can come off spacecraft like satellites and disintegrate into tiny – but dangerous – bits of debris in orbit.