On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured variable stars and circumstellar disks in NGC 1333, showing protostars, Orion variable stars, and reflection nebulae in the Perseus Molecular Cloud.

Some cosmic objects surprise by their unusual nature. This is the case for a cloud devoid of any stars, observed by ...

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

The Orion Nebula is the closest large star-forming region, located within the Milky Way just 1,500 light-years from Earth.

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn’t strong enough to drive its stellar winds, ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember - that is creating a colorful shockwave ...

The Mid-Hudson Astronomical Association will host a star party at Lake Taghkanic State Park’s West Beach parking lot on ...