Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet will aim a suite of instruments at Comet 3I/ATLAS to capture details about this enigmatic object.
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After a dearth of bright comets earlier this year, we look forward to an exciting month ahead.
Pegasus is a large, distinctive constellation that’s easy to spot. During October, you can use it — along with Saturn — to find some amazing celestial sights in their vicinity. Get all the details lots more stargazing info by downloading this month’s Sky Tour podcast!
A fight against conventionality has driven cosmologist Stephon Alexander on a groundbreaking journey through theoretical physics.
Primordial chemistry might destroy most of the water on sub-Neptunes; if so, there could be far fewer “water worlds” than previously thought.
VIPER, a water-seeking rover, has gotten a new lease on life, with a new launch vehicle and lander announced by NASA.
The waxing crescent Moon crosses Scorpius on its way to a meetup with Saturn, while the Moon's own sunrise line unveils more and more lunar lands for telescopes.
A new heliophysics mission seeks to unlock the secrets of the region where the solar wind collides with cosmic radiation.
The discovery of a rare Einstein Cross — five images of the same galaxy — reveals a trillion-solar-mass dark matter clump.
An Australian amateur has discovered a binocular nova on the first day of fall, visible to viewers in the Southern Hemisphere.
In a move that’s concerning astronomers and environmental groups alike, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed reducing environmental oversight of space-based operations.
On these dark evenings the Perseus Double Cluster and the Andromeda Galaxy, M31, await in the northeast. They're only two fist-widths apart.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that, just 800 million years after the Big Bang, there is a galaxy that contains a supermassive black hole — and not much else.
Titan joins its shadow for a "grand finale" this October.
A surge of asteroids might have peppered the inner solar system some 800 million years ago, in a short-lived shower that left its mark — literally — on Earth and its neighbors.
Whether you end up catching a falling star or not, meteor shower vigils offer time with the stars.
New observations reveal turbulent flows in the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A and in the solar corona.
The number of gravitational-wave signals has just doubled with the release of the newest catalog of events.
Reflect Orbital plans to launch gigantic satellites to reflect sunlight into regions where night has already fallen, potentially harming eyes, altering sleep, and blocking the starry sky.
S&T editors attended star parties in the past months in various locations around the country to observe with fellow stargazers.
The Perseverance has found compounds associated with life on Earth. But whether they indicate life on Mars awaits sample return.

