The comet can be seen with binoculars or a small telescope and may be visible to the naked eye later this month.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured imagery of dynamic star-forming region NCG 346 within the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, ESO, ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey 2, A.

This new image, released on April 4, 2025, showcases the dazzling young star cluster NGC 346. Although both the James Webb ...

High up on the top of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is nearing completion. At the heart ...

For decades, scientists have known that ordinary matter — everything made of atoms — accounts for just 15% of the universe’s matter. The rest is mysterious dark matter. But even that modest slice didn ...

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show! ESA’s XMM-Newton and other X-ray telescopes are capturing massive bursts of ...

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short ...

Skywatchers around the world turned their heads — and lenses to the skies to capture the beauty of April’s full Pink Moon — ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

The reason this worked so well is thanks to Hubble’s consistent, long-term observations. Over more than a decade, the space ...

The oldest naked eye star yet found still provides stellar theorists with key data on the earliest epochs of our Milky Way.

Only 30%-50% of the remaining objects survive the atmospheric passage and become meteorites. The debris pieces whose orbits bring them closer to the Sun tend to be significantly more durable, making ...