What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Unlike the moon with which we are familiar, which is 2,159 miles wide and located about 239,000 miles away, according to NASA ...

A small asteroid measuring roughly 19 meters across has quietly shadowed Earth for approximately 65 years, orbiting alongside ...

It may sound like a sci-fi headline but it's very real -- Earth now has a new celestial companion, a little asteroid named ...

On October 18, 2025, the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at ...

Email: rdejong@aip.de Joar Brynnel, 4MOST project manager, Phone: +49 (0)331 7499 310 Email: jbrynnel@aip.de 4MOST Press & Media Kit: Photo and Video Documention: 4MOST website: ...

Vinay Dharmik's curiosity for the cosmos started on the balcony of his two-story Mumbai, India, home when he was 6. There, ...

Elizabeth C. Babcock, the founding director of the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C., returns ...

Scientists have discovered asteroid 2025 PN7, a celestial body now identified as a quasi-satellite. This asteroid will orbit ...

Scientists explain that quasi-moons like PN7 share the same orbital period as Earth, circling the Sun in roughly one year, ...

I am writing this in Beijing, China. I am here for a two-week seminar on the protection and development of intangible ...

The Allure of the Cosmos Astronomical tourism has surged in popularity as people seek to immerse themselves in the wonders of the night sky. As our understanding of the universe expands, so does the ...