Astronomers have captured a haunting image of a “cosmic bat” spreading its wings across deep space. This nebula, 10,000 light-years away, glows crimson as newborn stars ignite clouds of gas and dust.

An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is ...

NASA joins the Roman space telescope and key instruments, marking a milestone toward its 2027 launch to reveal the cosmos.

The Hubble Space Telescope was originally expected to last about 15 years in orbit, before its optical surfaces became too ...

A laser-based ice drill can bore deep, narrow channels into ice while keeping both mass and energy requirements lower than ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captivated astronomers with its dramatic passage near the Sun, brightening significantly due to ...

Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...