Crews fought on Tuesday to defend homes and the famed Mount Wilson Observatory from California's biggest and most dangerous wildfire, standing their ground at a major highway between the flames and ...

From a mountaintop observatory near Los Angeles to the normally verdant Cascade range in the Pacific Northwest, crews on Wednesday battled monster wildfires that raged well into their second week as ...

Two newly discovered comets are streaking across the sky in a spectacular display as they make their closest approaches to Earth this month. Comets are made of ice, frozen gases and rock, and as they ...

JWST has detected phosphine gas on the brown dwarf Wolf 1130C, showing the molecule can arise without life. The finding challenges the idea that phosphine is a biological signature.

Black hole may have carved a vast contrail in galaxy NGC 3627 JWST and ALMA data reveal trail rich in dust and gas Contrail stretches 20,000 light-years, formed 20 million years ago ...

While NASA assures us 3I/ATLAS is a comet and won't cause us any harm, others have described it as ‘possibly hostile’ amid ...

Active black holes can emit a jet of particles as they feed on material that surrounds them. The team behind these new images ...

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending a mission to one would undoubtedly yield a scientific payoff. There's a ...

When astronomers first started finding “odd radio circles,” or ORCs, they were baffled. These faint, ghostly rings of radio light seemed to float in deep space, surrounding galaxies like cosmic smoke ...

The October Full Moon, also known as the Harvest Moon or Hunter's Moon, rises today, marking the first supermoon of the year.

George Smoot, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to deliver awe-inspiring views of the cosmos and the art world has taken ...