Researchers refined the trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter data, improving predictions and enabling precise monitoring for scientific study and planetary defense ...

In 1925, Payne-Gaposchkin became the first person to earn a doctoral degree (PhD) in astronomy from Harvard University. Her ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

Local library systems offer everything from Tarot cards to waterproof picnic blankets for cardholders to borrow.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.

NASA is heading into the holidays with long-awaited good news about its next flagship observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman ...

The United Nations (UN) has confirmed that Earth's planetary defenses will be observing the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it ...

This year’s WTOP “Gift Ideas for Stargazers,” coincides with Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, to possibly help get the best deals for that special someone on your holiday gift list that loves the ...

If you're wondering what kind of telescope you need to see Saturn and Jupiter, you're halfway to the answer. Although either of the two main types of telescope — refractors and reflectors — can be ...

The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...

In the Cheshire village of Lower Withington, near Goostrey and Holmes Chapel, an observatory was on the brink of being axed - until it made a huge discovery.

On 23 November, skywatchers were stunned as Saturn looked strangely bare in the night sky, a rare cosmic moment that made its ...