The 2026 Perseid meteor shower is active from tonight and peaks alongside a dramatic total solar eclipse on Aug. 12-13.

Data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope have located the first missing black hole in the ...

The black hole, dubbed oMEGACat BH-2, has a visible star companion that orbits it every 94 years, making the duo the ...

The massive globular star cluster Omega Centauri has puzzled astronomers for decades. It should be filled with black holes ...

Your phone is the first thing you touch in the morning and the last thing you see at night. A growing number of people have ...

The universe is a vast, mysterious expanse filled with secrets waiting to be uncovered. Among these secrets lies dark energy, a puzzling force that drives the accelerated expansion of the universe.

A new AI-powered framework could transform how astronomers measure the expansion of the Universe. By analyzing images of Type Ia supernovae and modeling their environments in unprecedented detail, ...

A ghost particle from Antarctica has led scientists to a hidden galaxy 11 billion light-years away, pointing to a new kind of cosmic neutrino source. A dust-cloaked star-forming galaxy called Shadow ...

A star could be about to become visible in the night sky in a once-every-80-years explosion. Here’s how to easily find T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) in the night sky.

When the Strawberry Moon rises above South Carolina on Monday, June 29 that is the celestial signal that summer has begun. The Strawberry Moon does not get its name from a lush red color. But ...

Galaxies live by making stars, and making stars takes gas. As long as a galaxy holds onto its gas, astronomers expect it to keep growing, especially in the crowded early universe. The James Webb Space ...

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can walk through” visualizes the cosmos in a 3D introduction to the universe ...