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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A massive asteroid, estimated to be larger than the Empire State Building and even the Golden Gate Bridge, is set to pass by ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so much.

The origin of our sun, and all the planets, comets and asteroids that orbit it, can be traced back to their birthplace inside a massive cloud of cold gas and dust, not unlike the billowing molecular ...