Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1. “It came from outside our solar system and right now, it's inside the orbit of ...

With more Dark Sky Places than anywhere else in the world, Utah’s high deserts are giving visitors front-row seats to the ...

In the vast expanse of the universe, the Milky Way Galaxy holds a special place in our hearts. It is our home, and after studying it for decades from our cosmic residence nestled within one of its ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has settled into low-Earth orbit, providing a wellspring of publicly available space data.

The American Astronomical Society (AAS), the SETI Institute, and the NASA Community College Network (NCCN) have teamed up to ...

French Creek State Park isn’t just another patch of trees off the highway. It’s the kind of place that makes you want to delete your Netflix account and become one with nature. The park sits where the ...

Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.