From signs of life on Mars to an interstellar visitor and weakening dark energy, 2025 reshaped space science, raising the ...

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

I/ATLAS, the interstellar object discovered in 2025, reveals the estimated population, composition, and distribution of ...

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

The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

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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.

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

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

Last Friday, the interstellar comet designated 3I/ATLAS completed its closest approach to Earth without crashing into us or depositing an invading armada.

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

Looking ahead, the comet will pass roughly 33 million miles from Jupiter in March 2026. Loeb noted the scientific value: monitoring 3I/ATLAS with the Juno spacecraft could reveal unusual activity, ...