NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.
President Donald Trump's administration is continuing its radical effort to cut much of the federal government -- and is being met with dozens of legal challenges. The Department of Government ...
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.
“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...
New black-and-white pictures have emerged of 2024 YR4, the 'city killer' asteroid that has a 1-in-48 chance of smashing into ...
Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...
Scientists predict Andromeda and the Milky Way will collide in about 4.5 billion years—reshaping the night sky forever!.
Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, took many dramatic images of the rings’ shadows on Saturn.
The lander, Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes Thursday to propel the spacecraft into lunar orbit ahead of a ...
The James Webb telescope used a near-infrared camera to capture an image of the Leo P dwarf galaxy which is located in the ...