Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials—and hints at answers to one of the great mysteries of science.

On Christmas Eve, NASA's fastest-moving probe will come closer than ever to the surface of the sun.

Here’s what happens on the longest night of the year—in the solar system and across different cultures here on Earth.

Barry Wilmore and Suni Williams will now come home in March at the earliest, to allow SpaceX and NASA engineers to complete development of a new Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we may have spotted a galactic neighbor with all the right molecular ingredients a mere 40 light-years away.

The two probes have left the solar system and are still collecting data from the interstellar environment—but their atomic hearts are growing weaker and weaker.

The giant holes in galaxies’ centers shouldn’t be able to combine, yet combine they do. Scientists suggest that an unusual form of dark matter may be the solution.