Cosmic Wonders Abound in the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest — Colossal
From aurora borealis to the Milky Way to distant nebulae, cosmic phenomena induces wonder like little else. When…
Scientists Find Earth’s Hidden Quasi-Moon After 60 Years
2025 PN7 is a “quasi-moon” that appears to have been in orbit of Earth since the 1960s without…
Growing Tail of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Captured
In a dazzling display of celestial drama, astronomers and students have captured the growing tail of Comet 3I/ATLAS,…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Observes Interstellar Comet
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Aug. 6, with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument. The research…
NASA’s New SPHEREx Mission Observes Interstellar Comet
NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observed interstellar comet…
New Study Fuels Debate Over World-Changing Comet Strike 12,800 Years Ago
Roughly 12,800 years ago, as Earth was emerging from its last great ice age, temperatures in the Northern…
A Rare Interstellar Object Is Zipping Through Our Solar System. This Brand-New Telescope Saw It First
Nearly a month ago, a mysterious object was seen hurtling through the solar system and later confirmed as…
Astronomers witness newborn planet sculpting the dust around it
Press Release 21 July 2025 Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate…