Looking ahead, the comet will pass roughly 33 million miles from Jupiter in March 2026. Loeb noted the scientific value: monitoring 3I/ATLAS with the Juno spacecraft could reveal unusual activity, ...

The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

In Part 2 of his story, Benita Albert tells of astronomer Bob Benjamin's career, including teaching and now being a NASA consultant.

I/ATLAS comet is the 3rd-ever object discovered that originated from outside our solar system. It's not a threat, approaches ...

Our understanding of the true nature of the cosmos relies on measurements of its expansion, but cosmologists have been ...

He cited the astronomical gaffe in January, when The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., announced the discovery of an ...

From the meteor showers to super moons, this time of year gives us a front row seat to one of the most active regions of the ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though Earth, and even the solar system that it belongs to, is infinite. But our sun ...

Researchers combined deep learning with high-resolution physics to create the first Milky Way model that tracks over 100 billion stars individually. Their AI learned how gas behaves after supernovae, ...

We cannot see or image the entire Milky Way galaxy, because we are located inside it. From Earth, we can observe only a portion of the galaxy, and when we look up at the dark, clear night sky from a ...

So it’s confession time: I’ve been lying to you. I’ve said on many occasions that our Milky Way galaxy has a flat disk (like in this column or this one). But it’s not really flat—not even for a ...