I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

The universe is far bigger and more interconnected than we can truly comprehend. Its scale is mind-bending. Driving around ...

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?

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A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Let’s learn about Capella. It is the fourth brightest star we can see in Ellensburg. It is the brightest northerly star. It ...

These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling ...

The VRO is a project jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of ...

In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours. His influence in astronomy continues to this day.

Space Good news for the Milky Way galaxy: New study reveals 50-50 odds of a collision with Andromeda Astronomers say that a collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda may not be a forgone ...