Brian Lacki has released a set of three prepublication studies attempting to rationalize and measure the odds of a ...

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Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

Scientists have recently focused their telescopes on a mysterious planet drifting through space, a discovery that has ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft captured dark streaks produced by geysers visible on the icy surface of Triton's south polar ...

Radio astronomy opens a window onto the invisible universe. While our eyes can detect visible light, countless objects in ...

For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus ...

A pairing-off of the brightest planet and a slender crescent moon will be the chief celestial attraction in the dawn sky ...

Asteroid 2025 TP5, discovered just two days before its approach, will fly past Earth on October 15 at a dangerously close ...

We're just weeks away from this interstellar visitor reaching its brightest in Earth's night skies. Will we see it?

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a hybrid deep ...