It's a reminder of why preserving pristine night skies remains essential for both astronomy and human wonder.

Recently discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have been captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

Construction on the Thirty Meter Telescope stalled at a different site on Mauna Kea in 2019 amid protests. Opponents said the ...

Earth's atmosphere is an impediment to astronomical observations. Not only is cloudy weather a problem, but temperature ...

The James Webb and Very Large telescopes spotted a free-floating planet accreting material at a record rate, displaying ...

Scientists who study comets are struggling to keep up with popular speculation that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was sent ...

Contrary to claims that 3I/ATLAS is no longer from Earth, space experts claim that the Manhattan-sized comet can now be captured by anyone with basic viewing equipment. Astronomer Yicheng Zhang ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

A Japanese astronomer captured two lunar impact flashes — caused by meteor strikes on the moon — just two days apart on video ...

The flare is ongoing, meaning that the black hole is still actively consuming the star, like "a fish only halfway down the ...

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) black hole 10 billion light-years away, J2245+3743, made the biggest and brightest flare ever ...

The McDonald Observatory director Taft Armandroff of The University of Texas at Austin will lead the next phase of ...