Andøya Space Center serves as a hub for launching rockets intended for atmospheric and geomagnetic research. Charged ...

Scientists tracking Earth's wandering magnetic pole have spotted it heading from Canada toward Siberia in recent years. Where ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

Hubble captures the aftermath of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s dramatic encounter with the Milky Way, revealing the loss of ...

Encounter Blew Away Most of Smaller Galaxy's Gaseous Halo In a dramatic tale of survival captured by the Hubble Space ...

NASA James Webb Space Telescope is the latest space-based observatory which has been studying deep space for more than 2 ...

It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...

Researchers have discovered an exemplary coral so big it’s visible from space. The gobsmacked experts said it’s “like finding ...

Stellar-mass black holes can be found anywhere in a galaxy, but the really big ones (known as supermassive black holes) are ...

Astronomers have spotted for the first time a trio of supermassive galaxies that were already fully formed in the first ...

A supernova close enough to Earth could strip the ozone layer and cause mass extinction, but no immediate threat exists.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, complex observatory that studies the universe in infrared light, which is ...