A huge asteroid that was feared to be on a collision course with Earth in 2032 could instead smash into the Moon, according ...

YR4 won't hit Earth, but scientists now estimate a 4% chance it could strike the Moon, possibly affecting space missions.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified the most distant known quiescent galaxy, revealing ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

At MIT, innovation ranges from awe-inspiring technology to down-to-earth creativity. Professor Erik Demaine ’s work in computational origami blends art and mathematics to solve intricate problems, ...

A successful reflight of SpaceX's Super Heavy booster would be an important milestone for its Starship program.

Explore how the Webb telescope reveals a massive black hole from the early universe living in a dormant state for most of its ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

According to the most widely accepted cosmological model, the first stars and galaxies began forming around 300-400 million ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of an asteroid that was once ranked as the biggest threat ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still ...