The Parker Solar Probe has now traced the sun’s outer frontier in unprecedented detail, turning a once-theoretical boundary into a mapped region of real, measured structure. By skimming through the ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is giving planetary scientists something they almost never get: a fresh sample of material from another star system, lit up in ultraviolet like a forensic lamp on a crime ...

This mash-up of data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals two galaxies mid-collision, with their spiral arms overlapping and bending toward their neighbors' ...

An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, successfully probed the early universe. An international group of astronomers has reached a new milestone in studying the early universe.

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...

Sky watchers may be tempted out this weekend, when an underappreciated meteor shower will coincide with a new moon and the ...

Fomalhaut lies about 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, aka the Southern Fish, and is one of the ...

NIRCam (Near-InfraRed Camera) of the James Webb Telescope helps us to understand and observe the distant galaxies, young ...

I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar object ...

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NASA's PUNCH mission is photographing the Sun like never before. It can see comets that are invisible to every other ...

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...