New James Webb Space Telescope images reveal how massive star clusters can reshape galaxies

The James Webb Space Telescope has helped scientists peek into the secrets of galactic evolution — and the view is stunning, too.

Does Dante’s Inferno from the 14th century depict an asteroid impact?

Dante’s description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks of an impact, forming a multi-ringed crater with a central peak.

Black holes slamming into scorching stars may be causing mysterious blue flashes in the cosmos

Powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients could be caused when a black hole or neutron star slams into the universe’s hottest class of star.

Artemis astronauts may find remnants of a ‘decapitated’ asteroid’s impact on the moon

An ancient impact may have scattered material from deep inside the moon toward NASA’s planned Artemis landing sites near the lunar south pole.

Moon joy at Jupiter | Space photo of the day for May 7, 2026

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a photo of Jupiter’s moon Thebe.

Here’s what 6 years of driving on Mars did to the wheels on NASA’s Curiosity rover (video)

A new video released by NASA/JPL documents six years of Curiosity rover’s wheels while driving on Mars.

How do the biggest black holes in the universe form? Ripples in spacetime provide a clue

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.

Should Saturn’s huge moon Titan be humanity’s next destination, after the moon and Mars?

Next month, a first-of-its-kind gathering will blueprint an eventual crewed trek to tantalizing Titan, the largest of Saturn’s many moons.

How an exoplanet odd couple survived by traveling in from the cold together

By probing the atmosphere of a mini-Neptune exoplanet, the James Webb Space Telescope has found that it formed much farther from its star than it is today, possibly explaining the origin of many other mini-Neptunes in the …