A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered the best place on Earth to study space.

The institute has been a unique fixture in Ireland, and now, with space central to its future, the sky is no limit ...

Astronomers warn of hidden asteroids near Venus that evade detection, with some capable of crossing Earth’s orbit and posing ...

Harvard researcher Avi Loeb says comet 3I/ATLAS weighs 33 billion tons and spans 3.1 miles, making it far larger than ...

When night falls in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, brilliant constellations shine down on the dry plains.

Our solar system’s third discovered interstellar visitor, comet 3I/Atlas, will dip into the glare of the Sun this week, leaving the detective work on this object to spacecraft far from Earth.

Located in the remote northern reaches of Pennsylvania’s Potter County, Cherry Springs sits atop a 2,300-foot mountain surrounded by the sprawling Susquehannock State Forest. It’s a place where ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new simulation of the hydrological cycle on Jupiter, modeling how water vapor condenses ...

A close conjunction of the waning crescent Moon (approximately 26% illuminated) and Jupiter occurred around 7 A.M. EDT, observable in the eastern sky before sunrise, with the Moon positioned between ...

To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique borrows from results obtained during a 2022 test mission for asteroid ...

The asteroid's neck, or "collum," — which joins the two lobes — has been named Windover. The name comes from the Windover ...