On the rocky slopes high above lush pine forests and mountain lakes, a group of researchers have just finished setting up ...

Interactions between these as-yet hypothetical particles and neutron stars' strong magnetic field would produce photons that ...

A recently discovered comet, which some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week, has disintegrated after it passed ...

Stonehenge’s central stone, known as the Altar Stone, may have had Scottish and not Welsh origins, researchers say. The finding suggests that Late Neolithic ...

University of Michigan researchers have tapped into two decades of NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory data to unveil fresh insights into the behaviors of cosmic jets emitted by black holes. Their ...

But scientists don’t yet have answers to the most basic questions about clouds on Mars: What are the daily, seasonal and ...

Find out how comets are connected to some of our favorite annual astronomy events with November's Night Sky Notes!

Halloween is here, and there is no better way to celebrate than with a blood-curdling image of the Dark Wolf Nebula looking ...

Dark nebulae are cold clouds of cosmic dust, so dense that they obscure the light of stars and other objects behind them.

The object – which has the full name C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) – was found last year but in recent weeks has passed close ...

If you’re lucky—for a sufficiently broad definition of “lucky”—you’ll materialize over the surface of a star (or inside one) ...

A week after the northern lights were visible in the Mid-Atlantic, a rare comet made an appearance. But, if you missed it Wednesday, don’t worry; you still have a few more days to catch it.