Using its 14-inch main telescope, the observatory tracked the comet immediately after sunset. In the resulting image, the ...

AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph a plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

On July 1, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected what was first believed to be an asteroid. As ...

Grote Reber helped spark decades of interest in radio astronomy in Tasmania when he decided to call the southern state home.

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever ...

Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered ...

Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This ...

When the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years hit Earth in May 2024, photographer Kavan Chay was in Tumbledown Bay, New ...

The earliest images of 3I/ATLAS, newly uncovered by Michigan State University, reveal how the interstellar object evolved as ...