The Parker Solar Probe, designed, built, and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, captured the images during ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

U-M astronomy is helping understand this fast, old and large comet that was born outside our galactic neighborhood This diagram shows the trajectory ...

The 'helicity barrier' has been directly confirmed, offering new insights into the heating and formation of the solar wind.

NASA has released remarkable video captured during the Parker Solar Probe's record-breaking 2024 flyby, offering the closest ...

Newly released imagery from NASA shows the Sun's corona in stunning detail after the Parker Solar probe performed its closest-ever flyby.

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

The object is big – possibly as wide 12 miles, larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs – and is speeding ...

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

Earth objects, astronomers recently discovered a comet visiting from interstellar space. This is only the third interstellar ...