C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) brightened significantly ahead of its close approach to the sun.

Every year in early January, Earth reaches the closest point in its orbit to the Sun, a moment astronomers call perihelion.

Earthshine is sunlight that bounces off Earth, travels to the Moon, and then reflects back to our eyes. The Moon essentially ...

A blistering coronal mass ejection from the Sun raced to Earth in just 25 hours, triggering a severe G4 geomagnetic storm and ...

Some regions of the continent have enough ice to push up sea levels by 15 metres if they all melt, but researchers don’t yet fully understand the consequences ...

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The first solar eclipse of 2026 is almost here, and it will carve a blazing ring of light into the sky as the moon slips in ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

Explore seven factual aspects of Jupiter, including its size, moons, rotation, atmosphere, rings, formation, and magnetic field based on NASA findings.

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Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...