The comet will come much closer to Jupiter in March, zipping within 33 million miles. It will be the mid-2030s before it ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

The comet will come much closer to Jupiter in March, zipping within 33 million miles. It will be the mid-2030s before it ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will pass Earth safely on 19 December, giving astronomers a rare chance to study a visitor ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

The true scale of the Milky Way Galaxy — and, indeed, the universe as a whole — became dramatically clearer in the 1920s. That’s when a new generation of large telescopes coupled with photography ...

Star chemistry reveals two spiral arms and a faint bridge in the Milky Way, offering a clearer view of hidden structure in ...

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 ...

For most of human history, the Milky Way has been a hazy band of light, a backdrop rather than a map. Now, by reading the ...