A team of astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting molecular activity in comet C/2014 UN271 ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have uncovered the first direct evidence of molecular activity in comet C/2014 ...

If our solar system seems stable, it's because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, ...

The orange dwarf Gliese 710 is expected to come within 0.1663 light-years or 10,520 astronomical units in about 1.29 million ...

I enjoyed the new space show at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City this week.

Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang. At New York's natural history museum, they ...

Scientists believe a huge bubble surrounds our solar system, called the Oort Cloud. The huge bubble is the farthest region of ...

Scientists aimed ALMA at the comet in March 2024 and saw carbon monoxide — a gas that usually doesn’t show up in observations that far away — gushing out of its surface in jets. The team also picked ...

For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other ...

OF201, the object belongs to the same all-star family as Pluto: dwarf planets. Its diameter, roughly 435 miles (700 km), is ...

Planet Nine? Jupiter might be the goon of all planets. Its sheer size and gravitational pull likely once threw a planet out ...

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...