For decades, popular science has repeated a simple origin story: everything in our bodies was forged in ancient stars and ...

Astronomers analyzing the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS say new trajectory and composition data point to an origin ...

Photos shared by NASA show what life looked like 250 miles above Earth in 2025, including images of hurricanes, the northern ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...

A Christmas Tree-shaped star cluster inside NGC 2264 reveals active star formation 2,700 light-years from Earth.

Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth.

This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree.

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured views of the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud with its NIRCam ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the dwarf galaxies NGC 4490 and NGC 4485 engaged in a gravitational dance.

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...