A bizarre radio galaxy discovered by a citizen scientist has left astronomers puzzled, revealing a never-before-seen "bow-and-arrow" structure that could offer rare insight into how galaxies are ...

It eases my embarrassment somewhat to know that many astronomers have made similar mistakes. My favorite one involves Kat ...

Scientists still don’t know where ghostly particles called neutrinos originate. A distant galaxy could be a potential source.

Colliding galaxies can trigger rapid star formation but also cause gas to be expelled. Astronomers used the James Webb Space ...

Astronomers have reported the discovery of an unusual X-ray transient detected by the Einstein Probe that does not fit any ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it has begun final preparations ...

As humans, we live out our lives on a planet that is constantly sweeping through a cosmic ocean littered with ancient debris ...

A New Mexico teenager reportedly went to the emergency center with severe burns after a NeeDoh toy sitting in a hot car for hours exploded when she squeezed it. The story follows a spate of headlines ...

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can walk through” visualizes the cosmos in a 3-D introduction to the universe ...

Bombshell video shows flashes from an old Southern California Edison transmission line at the origin of the deadly Eaton Fire, providing the clearest look yet at what may have happened in the moments ...

At the start of cosmic history, galaxies were big clouds of gas, and they grew by turning that gas into stars. If a galaxy runs out of gas, it will stop forming stars and die. Present-day galaxies ...