From Jan. 11 to 15, 2025, a bright comet surged through images from the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. Called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), the comet ...

This once-in-a-generation shift is a pivotal power play in a saga that will unfold in the years and decades to come.

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...

University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...

One of the snowiest towns in America is found in one of the country's hottest states. This charming mountain retreat offers ...

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In 1928, the amateur astronomer was offered a job at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, where he discovered Pluto. In 1934 ... remained unmoving in the images, but anything closer could be visually ...

Enhanced images of Pluto (right) and Charon (left), taken by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. Distance is not to scale. (Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ...

Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture ...

Many of her images are set in an AI-exaggerated version of the Kowloon Walled City — a former Qing dynasty fortress that became the most densely populated place on Earth. Refugees fleeing from ...

In 2003, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Arizona discovered that ... and suspended additional liftoffs by Starship. Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, is locked in a tight orbit with the ...

Rubin Observatory will soon use a car-size 3,200 ... Its first scientific images are expected later this year. In a single exposure, Rubin will capture 100,000 galaxies, the majority invisible ...