After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...
Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) was discovered on Sept. 10 by Ukrainian amateur astronomer Vladimir Bezugly. It has brightened ...
Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging ...
Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...
Two bright green comets are streaming through the skies and are visible to skygazers in the Northern Hemisphere. Both hail ...
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that ...
A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?
The stars just got a little closer for Valley skywatchers. The International Dark Sky Discovery Center in Fountain Hills ...
You’ve got a laser cutter. You’ve got a 3D printer. What do you make? [Ayushmaan45] suggests a telescope. The modest instrument isn’t going to do serious astronomy with only 8X ...
After a year devoid of comets visible to the naked eye, two of the celestial entities — C/2025 A4 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 ...