These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.

The White House bid to terminate NASA’s fantastical flights of exploration “across the solar system” threatens to explode ...

Astronomers are shocked as the largest comet ever seen, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, erupts with gas jets while still far beyond ...

There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter should solve the longstanding puzzle about why the Sun’s outer corona is so much hotter than its surface.

NASA observes largest Oort Cloud comet, C/2014 UN271, exploding with CO gas jets, thanks to ALMA’s deep-space capabilities.

Scientists aimed ALMA at the comet in March 2024 and saw carbon monoxide — a gas that usually doesn’t show up in observations that far away — gushing out of its surface in jets. The team also picked ...

Moving from the outer layer inward, the first layer is the corona — the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is ...

Located inside galaxies, these cosmic arrangements are made up of at least one star and all the objects that travel around it ... known as the sun. More than 150 moons orbit worlds in our solar ...

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It is famous for its swift and bright meteors, Perseids frequently leave long "wakes" of light and colour behind them as they ...

The craft helped solar boffins to discover that Sol’s north and south magnetic poles are both on the southern side of the ...