Prepare to howl with delight at the first full moon of January 2025, the wolf moon, one of several wonders in the night sky this month.

NASA astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 mission, took a far-ultraviolet photo of Earth with an ultraviolet ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics driving ...

Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of the "stuff" in the universe — about 85%, in fact. That means everything we ...

Researchers have uncovered the nature of a mysterious whitish, grey patch that often appears alongside the aurora borealis.