When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...

Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2000 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

For decades, the center of our galaxy has held mysteries. Now, thanks to a stunning image and fresh research, scientists are finally seeing what lies behind the thick dust.

By using a new technique, they found that Uranus completes a full rotation in 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds. That’s 28 seconds longer than the previous estimate in 1986. Copyright 2025 CNN ...

New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise ...

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed that the first star believed to have swallowed a planet did not expand to engulf ...

The confirmation hearing for the next head of NASA took place yesterday, April 9, with Trump’s nominee, billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman, answering questions from the senators in the ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

The new data of Uranus' interior rotation rate has a level of accuracy 1,000 times greater than previous estimates.

A machine learning method has the potential to revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy. Detecting binary neutron star mergers is a top priority for astronomers. These rare collisions between dense ...