A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new ...
Find out what's up in your night sky during January 2026 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.
What if everything astronomers thought they knew about comets was wrong? On November 22, 2025, an amateur astronomer in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, Efraín Morales Rivera, did more than just take a picture ...
Ever since interstellar object 3I/ATLAS streaked into our solar system, astronomers have been scrambling to understand how this likely comet got here—and more importantly, perhaps, where it came from.
A new study led by researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a neural network-based method for large-scale celestial object classification, according ...
Historical observations of the Moon's motion, dating back to ancient civilizations, played a crucial role in the development of timekeeping and calendar systems. The Moon's orbital cycle can be ...
Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy.An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of stars or something else entirely ...