Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for stargazers to catch a glimpse of the band of billions of stars. "Milky Way season," when the galaxy's ...

The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention. reading time 3 minutes A comet unlike any seen before has fixated astronomers ...

A new image shows the growing tail of a comet from another star system streaking across our solar system. The image of comet 3I/ATLAS was captured on Aug. 27 using one of the telescopes at the ...

You’re looking at a building block of someone else’s home, said planetary astronomer Karen Meech as the first calibrated images of comet 3I/ATLAS appeared on screens at the Gemini South Observatory.

A team of astronomers has attempted to track the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS back into the past, tracing its path through the galaxy in simulations involving over 13 million stars. On July 1, ...

The final 3D atlas of the sky will help scientists study dark matter and dark energy, which make up 96 percent of the universe but remain mysterious Margherita Bassi - Daily Correspondent An area of ...

"We were excited to see the growth of the tail, suggesting a change in the particles from the previous Gemini images." Astronomers have captured a stunning image of a tail growing on interstellar ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations have provided size estimates for the nucleus of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, ranging from 320 meters to 5.6 kilometers in diameter, though the nucleus itself ...

The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe doubles the resolution of Apollo-era maps and will support the space ambitions of China and other countries. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released ...