The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new milestone in stellar astronomy.

Set your eyes on the night sky this week and you may catch a glimpse of the New Year comet.

The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock for study on Earth.

A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and beyond.

The Axial Seamount is gonna blow, scientists say. The only question is when.

Swaths of the central, northern, and eastern United States will face subzero temperatures, freezing rain, snow, and ice.

At least five trackways were found in Oxfordshire, revealing a dynamic environment from about 166 million years ago.

A fresh outburst from the Sun may trigger auroras in parts of the northern United States and Canada.

New images from Webb Space Telescope reveal massive, ancient spiral galaxies.

Perplexing data in the early 2000s raised questions about how planetary formation began in the universe, and new data from Webb provides some answers.

The gold ring is the highlight of a deeply informative dig into a Bronze Age site in Brittany.

A unique property of quantum systems is on display in one of the LHC's standard particle production methods.

The proboscidean's jaw was found about 70 miles (112 kilometers) northwest of New York City, and will be put on public display next year.

Our rocky satellite's real age is concealed by a "remelting" event that caused its surface to liquify, distorting the story told in lunar rocks.

An ancient black hole had to take it easy after gorging itself on its local galaxy, offering hints at the exotic objects' evolution.

From black hole jets to auroras on Mars, this year had plenty of astrophysical wonder.

A bizarre creature from the Permian pushes back the timeline of our four-legged precursors.

From shipwrecks to space stations, many investigations into the past bore fruit this year.

The rover trekked nearly 2,000 feet to get out of the crater, where it will explore a 4-billion-year-old environment.

M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by the universe's most extreme environments.