In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...
Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines ...
G3 (ATLAS), the 'Great Comet of 2025,' lit up the night sky in Chile, offering a rare and breathtaking sight for stargazers, ...
Astronomers have discovered that billions of comets in an icy shell around the solar system called the Oort Cloud mimic the ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...
Residents in Tampa Bay were confounded after seeing what seemed to be an explosion in the sky around Thursday’s sunset.