Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

This is just 0.5 percent of all the galaxies that the Rubin Observatory will collect during its Legacy Survey of Space and ...

Watch Comet 96P/Macholz brighten as it flies by the sun in these time-lapses captured by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) ...

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to start solving the mysteries of the universe, from dark matter to Planet Ni ...

Rubin Observatory's LSST is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fill in the missing pieces of our solar system, said Mario Juric, a member of the Sorcha team and a UW professor of Astronomy.

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks and Jupiter were seen by NASA's Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory-A (STEREO-A). Credit: Space.com | NASA STEREO | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

A brilliant comet lights up the night sky over Chile's Atacama Desert in this stunning image captured by a photographer with the European Southern Observatory in January 2025. For several days in ...

Her husband has enjoyed building their own personal observatory, but it’s not the first time he’s built his own gadgets to seek out the stars. “He built a 10-inch pair of binoculars,” Curran said. “He ...

A comet nicknamed the “Halloween comet” disintegrated on Monday during its closest approach of the sun, and the European Space Agency and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory mission ...

The comet won’t be visible from Earth again for another 80,000 years. In addition to viewing the comet, the observatory will also explore some of the night sky’s more familiar wonders.

C/2023 A3 is a comet from the Oort cloud discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China on January 9, 2023, and independently found by ATLAS South Africa on February 22, 2023.“The comet ...

The Kerala University-run Thiruvananthapuram Astronomical Observatory has successfully captured images of the bright comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) since Wednesday, marking a significant ...