"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

Unlike the typical blue-and-green depiction of Earth, this photo shows the planet in a mossy green hue, framed by a thin ...

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.

Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

Hubble's study reveals Andromeda experienced major galactic collisions, unlike Milky Way. Its satellite galaxies show unusual ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. ET.

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...

Nevada is one of very few places left in the country where there is so little artificial light the Milky Way is visible to ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have a front-row seat to some of the most extraordinary sights in the ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the ...

Scientists have used the wobble of the Milky Way and what are known as "cosmic lighthouses" to shine a light on the mystery ...