Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what ...

"Virgil has two personalities, its 'good' side – a typical young galaxy quietly forming stars. But Virgil transforms into the host of a heavily obscured supermassive black hole, pouring out immense ...

Everyone's favorite interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, flew past Earth overnight, coming within about 168 million miles (270 million kilometers) of our planet.

Space telescopes are typically optimized either to study a small patch of the sky across many wavelengths of light or to ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS represents just the third object in history to be known to have entered our solar system from outside.

While online conspiracies swirl, comet 3I/ATLAS made a close pass by Earth on Dec. 19, giving astronomers a rare glimpse of a ...

Our understanding of the true nature of the cosmos relies on measurements of its expansion, but cosmologists have been ...

On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon ...

Hyderabadis braved record low temperatures over the weekend to observe the Geminid meteor shower, which peaks in mid-December ...

Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that ...

The Geminid meteor shower put on a dazzling cosmic firework show when it peaked overnight on Dec. 13 as shards of the solar ...

China's Wide Field Survey Telescope has captured an amazing view of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Credit: Space.com | footage ...