NASA's XRISM X-ray spacecraft has clocked 2 million mph winds ripping out of a distant galaxy bursting with star formation.

A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in ...

Astronomers reveal new insight into an iconic supernova remnant's evolution, structure and pulsar-driven growth over 25 years ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are preparing to travel beyond low-Earth orbit and return to the Moon.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the speed of superheated gas billowing from a cauldron of stellar ...

Primordial magnetic fields may help explain why measurements of the universe’s expansion do not agree. Scientists have long known that the universe is expanding, yet there is still no agreement on how ...

A University of Kansas researcher in physics and astronomy can now claim to be a star in her own right — at least within the ...

A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system. It contains stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas and dust, and a ...

The cool wind of galaxy M82 drives gas and dust up to 40,000 light-years from its core, as shown here using data from NASA's ...

Astronomers have spotted a bizarre cosmic explosion that refuses to play by the rules—and it’s leaving scientists scrambling for answers. GRB 250702B, detected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ...