The Hubble Space Telescope was originally expected to last about 15 years in orbit, before its optical surfaces became too ...

Born Nov. 2, 1885, In Missouri, Harlow Shapley earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1913. From 1914 to 1921, he was ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...

RIT researchers have revealed a new view of the Red Spider Nebula, as featured in ‘The Astrophysical Journal’ and by the ...

An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is ...

NASA joins the Roman space telescope and key instruments, marking a milestone toward its 2027 launch to reveal the cosmos.

Explore NASA’s 2025 comet watchlist, which features the interstellar visitor Comet 3I/ATLAS and 8 others reshaping U.S. space ...

Famed scientist Avi Loeb is investigating the newly found quasi-moon 2025 PN7, questioning if it is an artificial alien probe ...

For most of its journey 3I/ATLAS has been frozen solid, but the warming rays of our Sun are enough to unfreeze some of its gases such as carbon dioxide, generating a faint cometary tail. For a period ...

I/ATLAS was first spotted by NASA scientists in May this year. Ever since, it has displayed behaviors that are not just ...

A rare interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, is currently traversing our solar system, offering scientists a unique chance to ...

Astronomers have identified Comet 3I/ATLAS as an interstellar object, making it only the third confirmed visitor from outside our solar system, according to NASA.<br /><br />The comet is travelling on ...