While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole at its core,” according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Credit; ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Chinese scientists have deployed prototype detectors in the South China Sea to explore building a large underwater ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

The chances that a space rock could hit Earth in less than a decade just went up slightly, according to NASA scientists. The ...

YR4, the asteroid has a 2.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, according to the European Space Agency.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

What if you could find binoculars big enough to qualify as small telescopes? Get ready for the BT–127XL–SD apochromatic ...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a massive radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years across from a distant quasar. This is the largest radio jet ever found in the early universe, and it ...