Idaho has a secret that feels like it was teleported from another planet, and it’s hiding in plain sight just outside a tiny town called Bruneau. Imagine mountains of sand rising from the desert floor ...

Daria Pidhorodetska is a NASA scientist with an unusual side hustle — she creates content online. She opens up to PEOPLE ...

There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a supermassive black hole is the only possible explanation.

The newly discovered sungrazing comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) will undergo an extremely close slingshot around our star in early ...

Planned launch of 500,000 satellites could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays above Earth's weather.

NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.

Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs ...

The Gemini North telescope snapped a spectacular view of Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) breaking apart as it emerged from the other side of the sun in October.

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope spotted interstellar visitor comet 3I/ATLAS flaring up while exiting the solar system. Scientists explain what caused it.

In 1883, a comet capable of ending life on Earth narrowly missed impact. Only one man on the planet noticed, a Mexican scientist.

NASA observes interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS unexpectedly flaring as it leaves the solar system, revealing water vapour and ...

For decades, astronomers have been watching WOH G64, an enormous heavyweight star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy ...