The U.S. has pressed Argentina and Chile to review two Chinese telescope projects in the Andean deserts. Astronomers are worried about setbacks to research.
Photo credit: NASA/Chris Gunn Astronomers released an image this week that pulls viewers straight into the dynamic core of Messier 77 (M77). Located 45 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus, this barred spiral galaxy offers a clear ...
On January 9, 1643, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli pointed his telescope at Venus and noticed a faint glow on the planet's unlit side. Riccioli figured it was an ...
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A mysterious comet from beyond our solar system is giving astronomers a rare glimpse into alien worlds -- and it may have formed in a place far colder and stranger than anything around our Sun. The interstellar visitor, called 3I/ATLAS, contains an . ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something that shouldn't exist--at least not so early in the universe. A massive galaxy, formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang, appears to have no rotation at all, a trait .. ...
A bizarre planetary pairing 190 light-years away is challenging everything astronomers thought they knew about how worlds form. A "lonely" hot Jupiter -- typically found without nearby companions -- is sharing its system with a smaller mini-Neptune . ...