This year, the Qixi Festival is particularly noteworthy due to its late occurrence on the Gregorian calendar. The last time the festival fell on August 29 was in 2055, making this a rare event. The ...

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 ...

Astronomers have imaged a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star — the largest such bubble ...

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

The findings, published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, come from a team led by Mark Siebert of Chalmers. Using ...

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

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

The study reveals that DFK 52, a red supergiant star, has shed a significant amount of mass, creating a vast bubble of gas ...

The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, ...

M11 is best viewed in the hours between sunset and midnight in August, when the cluster can be found roughly 40 degrees above the southern horizon. Remember, the width of your clenched fist held at ...