In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun.

NASA’s Hubble telescope captured an “extraordinarily” rare moment of a comet exploding into fragments, the space agency said. The comet K1, whose full name is C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), was caught fragmenting ...

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born inside the extreme stellar explosion.

Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory detected 800,000 changes in the sky during just a single observation session.

A fiery streak across the sky and a loud boom greeted many residents of northeast Ohio on the morning of March 17. The rare celestial spectacle, which took place a little before 9 A.M. Eastern ...

The "invisible" Universe offers a spectacle far vaster than what our direct vision allows us to appreciate. A recent mapping effort has catalogued over 13 million cosmic objects and events, ...

After years of investments, African telescopes are emerging as global leaders in frontier astronomy. From South Africa’s MeerKAT capturing the universe’s most distant gigamaser to Ghana’s radio ...

Millennial and Gen Z parents are increasingly willing to plan vacations around their kids. My husband and I took that to the ...

Most people drive right past Fort Payne, Alabama without realizing they’re missing one of the South’s most spectacular ...

With the help of an extremely powerful telescope deep underground in Japan, astronomers may be able to catch a glimpse of ...

A strange flicker from a star 11,000 light-years away reveals evidence of two planets crashing together in a rare cosmic event, Gaia20ehk.