One of the brightest comets in 20 years, Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) returns for a close encounter with the sun — but will we be ...

An international team of astronomers has detected over 40 individual stars in a galaxy located 6.5 billion light-years away.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague will install patches to the agency’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray ...

You still might be able to catch Venus, Saturn and Neptune on the horizon ... to invest in UV protection for your eyes and be particularly careful about where you point your telescope.

You're going to want to look up -- this event includes the three furthest planets in our solar system. 2025 is starting off ...

The strength of the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation is expressed as a Solar UV Index or Sun Index.The UV Index does not exceed 8 in the UK (8 is rare; 7 may occur on exceptional days, mostly in the ...

The supermassive black hole (center) shown by the Event Horizon Telescope is located in the center of galaxy M87. The short linear feature near the center is a jet produced by the black hole. Credit: ...

This letter proposes an adaptive-resolution Gaussian process mapping with event-triggered distributed map fusion to overcome these resource limitations. A novel event-triggered communication mechanism ...

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers detected and measured the high velocities of the D9 stars. At first, the team believed they had found a single star ...

Various special events are scheduled for the coming weeks and the ice rink will remain open until Jan. 12, 2025.

After taking the first images of black holes, the ground-breaking Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. Now, a research team led by ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the ...