NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has captured a series of images of 3I/ATLAS between January 15 and 22, 2026, as it moved away from the Sun. It created a 28-hour-long video in which ...

Planning a trip in 2026? From total solar eclipses to meteor showers and rare planetary alignments, here’s a complete guide to the major astronomical events worth travelling for.

MoM-z14, the farthest known galaxy, offers a glimpse into the early universe as it existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang, with its light having traveled over 13 billion years to reach ...

The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1779 and has been studied extensively ever ...

What if extraterrestrial life is hiding in places we had completely ruled out? For decades, astronomers have focused their ...

NASA completes assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The observatory will enter final testing before launch, providing infrared surveys and cosmic data for astronomy research.

"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations across multiple ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14 ...

During a special observation run earlier this month, NASA’s TESS space telescope recorded the interstellar comet’s subtle glow and tail, adding to archived observations that may reveal clues about ...

By measuring the galaxy’s redshift, the scientists behind the discovery were able to confirm that its light has been ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is celebrating 50 years since the building in Washington, D.C., opened to the public and will commemorate this milestone throughout 2026. The museum ...

From degeneracy to galactic archaeology, white dwarfs are helping scientists make sense of some of the universe's burning mysteries.