Comets such as C/2025 R2 (SWAN) are ancient remnants of the early solar system, made of ice, rock, and organic compounds. As ...

Comet Lemmon, also designated C/2025 A6, was discovered in January by a telescope scouring the night sky for near-Earth ...

Skywatchers across North America should be on high alert as a rare train of four CMEs (coronal mass ejections) from the Sun ...

Just after midnight, the moon will light up the east-northeastern horizon, cozying up right next to Jupiter. Here's how and ...

The Milky Way is really something to see — but not this month, when it’s at the level of the horizon before midnight. (The Columbian files) Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

Don't miss the moon, Jupiter and the stars of the constellation Orion rise above the eastern horizon on Oct. 12.

Astronomers have caught a blast of hot wind streaming from the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sgr A*, for the first time ...

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth. reading time 2 minutes An astronaut recently captured an image of Earth from the ...

A supermoon will be visible in Australian skies on Tuesday as the moon comes near its closest point to Earth. The moon will ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is an unflown specimen of a ...

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