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Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) glows alongside the Eagle Nebula. (Image credit: Daniele Gasparri) passed in front of the Eagle Nebula and the iconic Pillars of Creation, from his home in

The Voyager 2 mission may have caught Uranus at a special time during which the ice giant’s radiation belts were being supercharged with electrons accelerated by a similar process to

High up in the Chilean Andes, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is set to become the world’s largest optical telescope and one of the most ambitious scientific instruments ever built.

German Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Reinhard Genzel has penned a letter urging the government of Chile to halt the development of a green hydrogen plant in the vicinity of one of

NASA just released striking new video and audio that reveal the sounds of dust storms on Mars crackling with tiny lightning-like sparks. The footage, which NASA released on Dec. 3,

China continues to make big advances in the final frontier. The nation just launched three Long March rockets in less than 19 hours, setting a new national mark for liftoff

The light of the oldest supernova ever seen, dating back 13 billion years to just 730 million years after the Big Bang, has been captured by the James Webb Space

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they determined it could be the work of a black hole destroying

Chinese astronauts just got an up-close look at the damage that space junk can cause. Two astronauts of the three-person Shenzhou 21 mission conducted an extravehicular activity (EVA) outside China’s

The January full moon will occur at 5:03 a.m. EST (1003 GMT) on Jan. 3, when the moon sits opposite the sun and appears completely illuminated from our perspective. This