Astronomy

This annual meteor shower occurs as Earth passes through the dusty debris left behind by Halley’s Comet as it journeys around the sun

The Kardashev scale is an interesting but flawed gauge of a civilization’s growth

Researchers are perplexed by a galaxy that seems too large and too dusty for its place in cosmic history, less than a half-billion years after the big bang

This galaxy, also known as Messier 104, gets its nickname from its central bulge and outer dust trail, which give it a sombrerolike appearance from our vantage point

New James Webb Space Telescope images could shed fresh light on how dying stars evolve over time

Subatomic black holes from ancient cosmic history could, in principle, make you have a very bad day. But chances are you’ll never encounter one

Ahead of schedule and under budget, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch in early September. The mission aims to map the universe in unprecedented detail

Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed rapidly in a chaotic disk at the dawn of the solar system

The Lyrid meteor shower is peaking from April 21 to April 22. Here’s how to spot this annual celestial light show

All the sun’s planets are oddballs. But some are more so than others

A new map of the cosmos, including more than 47 million galaxies and other cosmic objects, represents one of the most extensive surveys of our universe ever conducted

A first-of-its-kind observation shows how jets from voracious black holes can shape the growth of galaxies