Asteroid Bennu has gone from a dark speck in telescope images to a kind of time capsule, carrying intact chemistry from the ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

A simple look at ALMA’s new finding showing the highest methanol and hydrogen cyanide levels ever seen in a comet.

3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar visitor, hence the prefix “3I.” The second known interstellar body, Comet 2I/Borisov, was discovered by the Russian astronomer Gennady Borisov in August ...

Unusual behavior of 3I/Atlas inspires a new theory suggesting it might be observing Jupiter like a controlled object.

The number 40,000 might not sound particularly dramatic, but it represents humanity's growing catalog of near-Earth asteroids ...

A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...

A good satellite tracker app can turn your phone into a personal guide to the cosmos, showing you everything from the ...

NASA maintains 3I/ATLAS is simply a comet. Still, Loeb commented that if spacecraft such as Juno detect unfamiliar hardware orbiting Jupiter after ATLAS passes, it would force humanity to rethink its ...

New telescope observations reveal structural features never documented in any known celestial object The morphology defies conventional understanding. The forward anti-tail persists where physics says ...

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

Museums and galleries do big business at this time of year. It’s a combination of cashing in on holiday gift-giving and opening up their spaces to folks with lots of leisure time and plenty of ...