"With this data, the future path of the comet can also be determined much more precisely," Richard Moissl of ESA told Newsweek.

What is the baseline for determining the magnitude scale of celestial objects? Why do brighter objects have negative numbers? Dean TreadwayKnoxville, Tennessee The first observer to catalog ...

When many meteors appear to streak from the same point in the night sky, that is known as the radiant. This year, the ...

The path of comet 3I/ATLAS through the solar system has been predicted with an accuracy 10 times greater than previous ...

It’s an excellent rehearsal for if we need to use interplanetary missions to calculate the path of a more threatening object.

NASA is facing increasingly sharp challenges as it pursues its goal of landing astronauts on the moon again before this ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made a groundbreaking discovery that could change our ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, SN 2024ggi, revealed a surprisingly olive-shaped blast when studied with ...

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found ...

The preview at the new Stamford Museum & Nature Center included a 5-minute show in the planetarium. This image of ...

Nearly 2½ centuries ago, in December 1781, musical composer and amateur astronomer William Herschel was scanning his telescope through the skies over ...

On November 16, 1974, humans sent their first message to the stars in an attempt to contact extraterrestrials. They did this ...