Liftoff of the "RAISE and Shine" mission is scheduled for 10 p.m. ET tonight (Dec. 6). Rocket Lab will launch a Japanese ...

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New technology is helping astronomers open new windows into novae, stellar explosions that can act as 'laboratories for ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations have revealed a galaxy that shouldn’t exist, a complex spiral galaxy named ...

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

This delicate balance is beginning to shift as satellite megaconstellations expand across low Earth orbit, increasing both in ...

A partially successful test of China’s Zhuque-3 rocket shows that other countries are rapidly catching up with the U.S in the ...

Bennu is believed to have originated from the shards of a much larger world. Curiously, asteroid Ryugu, sampled by the ...

Harry Potter fans, whether you love stargazing or flying lessons, check out the importance and practicality of each of the ...

Both of Friday’s Astronomical Unit lectures are related to celestial phenomena not discernible to human senses. David ...