Nobody has any idea of the origin of the comet. It is a glimpse of a rifle bullet a hundredth part of a second. You can never cast that back with any accuracy to determine when it began on its journey ...

It did not subside after the nearest approach of Comet 3I/ATLAS to the Sun; it became bright once more. The delay of that ...

I spoke to Unistellar co-founder and SETI astronomer Franck Marchis about how citizen scientists are using smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense, research and observational astronomy. Here’s ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, offering a new clue to how comets evolve.

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the clearest image yet of a galaxy cluster in the making, seen when the universe was only one billion years old.

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Celestron FirstScope 76: Very affordable and ideal for kids or as a quick backyard scope. Despite the small size, you can easily catch the craters of the moon and even glimpse Jupiter’s moons.