A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes of a naked-eye spectacle.
Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto, has been visible through telescopes and…

A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes of a naked-eye spectacle.
Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto, has been visible through telescopes and…

If you thought the cosmic web was tangled enough, think again. A team of astrophysicists recently used gamma-ray bursts—those spectacular, enigmatic explosions of energy from the farthest reaches of…

Dark matter may have contributed to the formation of giant black holes in the early universe, researchers propose in a new paper.
More observations, especially with the James Webb Space Telescope, are revealing truly gigantic black holes that…

NEW YORK (AP) — A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes of a naked-eye spectacle.
Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud beyond…

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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, which was launched on October 16, 2021, is getting ready for its…

Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system, may be home to a dazzling secret hidden beneath its scorched surface—a diamond layer up to 11 miles thick. A groundbreaking study, led by planetary materials expert Dr. Yanhao Lin…
The Lyrid meteor shower began Sunday evening and continues for three nights. The best viewing is expected around early Tuesday morning.
The Lyrids are one of the oldest known meteor showers, with records of sightings going back to 687 BCE.
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(BIVN) – Episode 18 in the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption restarted at 7:45 a.m. on Sunday morning, with small fountains feeding a lava flow from the south vent within Halemaʻumaʻu crater.
The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory wrote in a…

While slowly climbing the slopes of Mount Sharp — a towering peak inside Mars’ Gale Crater — NASA’s Curiosity rover made a remarkable discovery: large deposits of carbon locked away in carbonate minerals. That may sound a little dry at…