A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

It’s known for its bright and fast-moving shooting stars resulting from Halley’s comet, the most famous comet of all, which ...

COIAS (Come On! Impacting ASteroids) is a web-based application that lets anyone search for Small Solar System Bodies (SSSBs) ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

Discovered in March of this year, Comet Swan (C/2025 F2) is visible low in the pre-dawn northeast sky, before moving to the ...

Astronomers detected potential biosignatures on exoplanet K2-18b, but findings remain inconclusive. Claims of alien life ...

Researchers named it 'Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "scout". 'Oumuamua was later confirmed to be the first object from another star ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

"Either our models are in error, or the DMS/DMDS might not exist," Schwieterman told Space.com. "Finding life outside the ...