NASA is quietly entertaining one of the most audacious telescope concepts ever proposed: using the Sun itself as a giant lens ...
Scientists have used a novel new approach to discover the potential origins of the sun goddess particle Amaterasu, the second ...
It's the final act for a star in the constellation Cygnus, some 1,000 light-years away. But this star is not dying without ...
A total lunar eclipse will dazzle skies next month, marking what astronomers are calling one of the best astronomical events to see with the naked eye.
For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...
A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust, ...
The interstellar visitor, only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar system, ignited controversial ...
The upcoming annular solar eclipse will be the first since 2024. During the event, the moon's shadow will carve a path 383 ...
Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...
A deep space photographer spent months photographing the Crab Nebula and found his composite image, when compared with the 1999 image from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the supernova's expansion.
There's almost no Moon on display tonight, ...
Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...