Astronomers have spotted a rare blast of light from a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. The phenomenon - known as a tidal disruption event - is the closest such flare recorded to date at just over 215 million light-years from Earth.

The James Webb Space Telescope - successor to the Hubble - just passed a series of environmental testing trials, designed to simulate the rigors of its anticipated launch in 2021.

Interstellar space isn't just vacuum. It's full of gases, elements, and dust - very thinly spread, to be sure - but the building blocks of stars and planets.

Scientists with the European Space Agency say that the Mars Express orbiter has found evidence of three more salty lakes below Mars' south pole. The discovery comes two years after the first lake was detected in 2018.

Do you want to be a planet-hunter? NASA has launched a new citizen science website called Planet Patrol where volunteers can help search for exoplanets in data from the TESS space telescope.

After 2 weeks of scrubs, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket blasted off October 6, 2020, carrying 60 more Starlink satellites to orbit. The rocket successfully landed at sea 9 minutes later. Video of the launch and landing here, plus steps taken to reduce the bright satellites' effect on astronomy.

Gorgeous, detailed image of the Carina Nebula, a star nursery approximately 8,500 light-years away, as observed with the Gemini South telescope in Chile.

The discovery of near-perfectly preserved billion-year-old Martian dunes is helping scientists to unravel the geologic and climatic history of the red planet.

For the first time, astronomers have obtained an image of the very young gas giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris c, 63 light-years away. Its sibling, Beta Pictoris b, was discovered and photographed in 2008.

All these years, NASA scientists have laboriously sifted through spacecraft images to identify and classify markings on Mars. Now they're using a new "classifier," powered by artificial intelligence. What takes a human 40 minutes takes the AI tool an average of just 5 seconds.