Astronomers have made an exciting discovery: a massive, shining object racing through our solar system. The object, which was ...

While the Sun appears placid to the naked eye, it is a roiling sphere of ionized gas or plasma, shaped by powerful magnetic ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the Earth.

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...

Once in space, the Comet Interceptor will travel to the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2 (just like Ariel), meaning 932,000 miles ...

The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...

NASA's PUNCH mission, launched in March 2025, is already delivering remarkable results. The mission captured a rare \"rainbow\" view of space dust and i ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...

Once they escape the Sun, they zoom through space at the speed of light, eventually reaching Earth and giving us that sweet, ...

Based on the comet's brightness and current distance — it's located just inside Jupiter's orbit — scientists estimate its ...

Let’s learn about Capella. It is the fourth brightest star we can see in Ellensburg. It is the brightest northerly star. It ...