On Saturday, Nov. 15, a group of intrepid observers gathered near Animas, New Mexico, to celebrate first light of a new large ...

In the silent expanse of space, a celestial butterfly made of stardust unfurls its radiant wings. The Butterfly Nebula – a ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are shown at once: the noisy, showy Milky Way crowds the north with its starry ...

Scanning the constellation Cepheus the King leads us to one of the sky’s largest emission nebulae — IC 1396. It measures a whopping 2.8° by 2.3°. But this region also contains dark nebulae and a ...

It's been 35 years since Hubble came online, so in honor of the intrepid telescope's 35th anniversary, we've put together this gallery of our favorite Hubble images. The Hubble Space Telescope was ...

T here has been much talk about the possibility of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS being an alien mothership or alien ...

NASA reveals that a particle wind powers pulsar J1023, aligning optical and X-ray polarization, which calls existing models ...

New findings bolster the natural origin theory for comet 3I/Atlas. An observatory in South Africa detected radio frequency ...

The effort to monitor the comet, estimated to be the size of a city block, was spurred on by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, a vocal proponent of the theory that 3I/Atlas could have an ...

In general, planetary nebulae (PNe) are expanding shells of gas and dust that have been ejected from a star during the process of its evolution from a main sequence star into a red giant or white ...

But those opting for frugal diesel cars will pay more under the State Government's so-called "environmentally friendly" levy. Hybrid cars, regardless of engine size, are exempt from the stamp duty ...

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen environmental ...