For the first time, scientists have created detailed, 2D maps of the sun's outermost atmosphere. This feat was accomplished ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) on Dec. 19. At that time, it will be about ...

The mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is making its closest approach to Earth on Friday, offering scientists a rare ...

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

The mystifying 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet is blazing toward Earth and will in a matter of days come as close to our planet ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Its last close encounter was in mid-September, the closest one yet, passing just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. It passed through the boundary between outer space and the region where the ...

With major eclipses, brilliant supermoons, and lineups of five or more planets, 2026 offers something awe-inspiring in every season. Here’s what to watch for.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet ...

In their desperate search for another Shadowsmith, the Zombies crew find themselves stranded on an abandoned observatory that drifts silently within ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view of this peculiar planet’s rings in more than 30 years,” according to ...