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A comet discovered earlier this year continues to break apart after its close brush with the sun this month. Astronomer Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project captured breathtaking imagery

A history-making robotic rescue mission scheduled to launch next year will fly on a rocket dropped from a plane. In September, NASA announced that it has chosen Arizona company Katalyst

Recently, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) used its powerful interferometer, also called the VLTI, as part of its GRAVITY+ upgrade to the entire system. What is it? The VLT is

The headline says it all: The list of our moon’s craters just got a little longer. On Nov. 13, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team — which operates visual

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites in a nighttime liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast on Tuesday (Nov. 18). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink spacecraft launched

After only one year of operations, the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission has begun to unravel the mystery of why galaxies take on different shapes and how these different shapes

NEW YORK — The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City has opened a new exhibition that takes a multidisciplinary perspective on the asteroid strike that ended

Ryan Gosling is adrift in deep space with an unlikely rock-skinned alien in the latest trailer for Amazon MGM Studios’ “Project Hail Mary,” and it looks like this cosmic riddle

Astronomers have discovered that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have already found the long-sought first generation of stars born shortly after the Big Bang. These initial stars, referred

White dwarfs don’t get enough airtime. Sure, these ultradense, dim cores of dead stars are small and hard to see. But they’re incredibly exotic, and they’re what sunlike stars become.