Comet G3 is on its first voyage into the inner solar system, meaning it’s packed with volatile materials that have never been ...

Astronomers have discovered that billions of comets in an icy shell around the solar system called the Oort Cloud mimic the ...

In world-first observations, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching two distant alien planets "spilling their guts into ...

To map out the best nights for skywatching, we turned to three seasoned stargazers to tell us about the best nights of the ...

Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project captured imagery of comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF). The comet's closest approach to Earth at 26.4 million miles (42.5 million km) away. Credit: Gianluca Masi / ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

which smash together within these belts to produce the pebbles that we observe here with the ALMA and SMA arrays of telescopes," Luca Matrà, lead study author and former CfA Submillimere Array ...

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The equipment included 14-inch and 11-inch telescopes, a couple of cameras, cell phones, and a Canon R5 with a 1,000-millimeter telephoto lens. Seconds before the transit, one of McCarthy's ...

In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 YR4 twice over the next few months. The asteroid has a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe. At double the width of ...