The uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station Friday after having delivered more ...

The search for evidence of life on Mars just got a little more interesting with the discovery of large organic molecules in a ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

Suppose humanity was faced with an extinction-level event. Not just high odds, but certain-sure. A nearby supernova will ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...

But what is a solar eclipse? Think of it as a supercharged new moon, one that occurs when the moon passes between the sun the ...

Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a ...

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Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.