The latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope turns a quiet patch of sky into a spectral scene, revealing a so‑called ...

In the cold dark of the constellation Ophiuchus, a faint, wraithlike shell of gas is quietly advertising the fate that awaits ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

The Geminid meteor shower put on a dazzling cosmic firework show when it peaked overnight on Dec. 13 as shards of the solar ...

Since it has the fewest hours of sunlight compared to the rest of the year, the Winter Solstice is considered the “shortest ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

A newborn star 15,000 light-years from Earth is fascinating astronomers with its dual blasts of superheated plasma jets. The ...

A skydiver leaping into the void with the Sun at their back, a sloth clinging to a barbed-wire fence, a microscopic tattoo on ...

Physicists discovered that the famous 'Star Trek' spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

The best JWST images reveal galaxies, nebulae, and cosmic structures in stunning infrared clarity. These James Webb photos ...

December 15, 2025 - WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service has announced the Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express stamps it will release in 2026. There will be additional stamp subjects to be ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...