Some deep-sky objects stand on their own. Others pair up with notable companions. Occasionally, the surrounding star field ...

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

Four Hawaiʻi Island high school students in July — participants in the first Project Hōkūlani summer internship program ...

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 ...

JWST infrared technology pierces cosmic dust with unmatched clarity, revealing hidden star nurseries and structures no ...

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

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 ...

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