Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Just past 2 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, a new rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

The Red Planet reaches its best position all year this week on January 15. Here’s how and when to get out and see it.

The lanes and clouds of dust in the star-forming Orion Nebula (M42) reveal a dark dimension to this familiar object.

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early galaxies formed.

The key NASA center remains under a mandatory evacuation order, but officials say both it and Mount Wilson are protected for ...

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

Every 26 months, the orbits of Earth and Mars allow us a closer look when Mars is at opposition — which will happen on Jan.

Extractable water near the south pole of our closest celestial neighbor promises a new spark for future space explorers.

The Red Planet comes closest to Earth, disappears behind the Moon in an occultation, and finally reaches opposition in the ...