A tremendously large cloud that blocked the light from a distant star has been found to consist of swirling winds of ...

With the Maoists in Chhattisgarh at their weakest, the government is racing ahead with key highway projects in what were ...

A former Harvard physicist has argued that God may have a physical location within the universe. Unfortunately for anybody hoping to have a word with the deity, according to Dr Michael Guillén God is ...

After two years of careful study of Webb images, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic Dawn Centre reached a ...

Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...

Solar system comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) makes its closest approach to the sun today (Jan. 20) during an event known as ...

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 ...

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

The Northern Lights could be visible in parts of New York state on Friday night, Jan. 16. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Tune in today (Jan. 16) to bid farewell to interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, courtesy of a livestream from the Virtual Telescope ...

At times, the sun ejects energetic material into space, which can have consequences for space-based and even ground-based ...

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