May the oldest comet on record also be one of the most bizarre? The interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, found on July 1, 2025, is rewriting the book on what a comet from outside our Solar System will do.

Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

A new analysis of the EHT reveals that Sagittarius A*, the central black hole of the Milky Way, is spinning rapidly and ...

A STRONOMERS AT THE University of Galway are part of an international team of researchers who have discovered a new planet ...

As the temperature dropped, the vast night sky became a stage for distant planets and the steady glow of thousands of stars.

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant Saturn-sized planet orbiting TOI-6894, the smallest star ever known to host such a world.

Scientists have revealed the exact date that the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy will erupt into life, and ...

Other good stops for stargazing are on Palomar Mountain, “especially going down East Grade Road and overlooking Lake Henshaw.

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the ...