Comet 3I/ATLAS, which made a close approach to the sun, has prompted lots of public interest. Kim Kardashian asked NASA's ...

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When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030 its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it remains an open question as to whether its successes matched humanity's ...

Sunspot AR3767 erupted with a X1.7-class solar flare, followed by an X1.1-class flare from sunspot AR3780. NASA's Solar ...

Shreejaya Karantha is a science writer specializing in astronomy, covering topics such as the sun, planetary science, stellar evolution, black holes, and early universe cosmology. Based in India, she ...

Researchers armed with a new "photonic lantern" device have discovered an unexpectedly asymmetrical disk of gas swirling ...

A newly discovered comet is about to make its closest pass to Earth on Tuesday night. It should be visible over the Bay Area ...

A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

A cluster of telescopes lined the concrete outside of Kika Silva Pla Planetarium, and families leaned in to take peeks at the moon’s craters through their lenses. Strangers chatted to each other about ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, ...