Still weeks away from returning to office, Donald Trump is showing himself to be as petty and vindictive as he was in his ...

One of the brightest comets in 20 years, Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) returns for a close encounter with the sun — but will we be ...

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

Shining just a trifle less than Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, Mars comes to opposition on Jan. 16 and a few days prior to that, on Jan. 13, will be briefly hidden by the full moon across ...

The term "quasar" was first used in 1964 by astrophysicist Hong-Yee Chiu to describe some of the brightest objects in the universe ... thought to be isolated, star-like objects.

"My colleagues are excited because they've never seen this much detail before." Quasars are awe-inspiring – among the brightest objects in the Universe, behind gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. Unlike ...