New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around ...

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

Interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS is still full of surprises — an unexpected brightening has scientists baffled ...

Time now for an interstellar flyby. Let's meet a very old comet, 3I/ATLAS. DARRYL SELIGMAN: 3I/ATLAS is probably somewhere between 3 billion to 11 billion years old. So it's presumably been traveling ...

MOST (4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope) instrument observed the sky with its full array of 2,400 optical fibers ...

It wasn’t until Albert Einstein that we developed a more sophisticated mathematical understanding of time and space that allowed physicists to probe deeper into the connections between them. In their ...

Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a key prediction from Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity and ...

Comets Lemmon and SWAN are making their closest approach to the Earth tonight, Oct. 21. Here's how you might see them with ...

The Lisska Center for Intellectual Engagement will host a roundtable discussion on time travel at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 5.

The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the winners of its ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest. This annual showcase highlights some of the world's best space photography, with ...

Time and space-time Of course, scientists want to understand how we experience time in mathematical terms that can be tested through experiments. In relativity, the three dimensions of physical space ...