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 ...

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

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

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

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera at the $810 million 18-storey Vera C. Rubin observatory in Chile, named after the US astronomer who ...

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 ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

Astronomers have uncovered a distant celestial body that may be a new dwarf planet, orbiting the Sun from more than twice the distance of Pluto. Found by researchers at the Institute for Advanced ...

From a James City County soccer field, Van Ruckman observed a distant asteroid and its moon, a feat that electrified the ...

From a James City County soccer field, Van Ruckman observed a distant asteroid and its moon, a feat that electrified the ...

The monsterous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 isn't just the largest icy rock in the Oort Cloud, it's the second most ...