3I/ATLAS is the fastest comet ever recorded and its interstellar! NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead Producer Music Credit: "God ...

In 2002, astronomers at Johns Hopkins University set out to answer a question nobody asked but everyone secretly needed ...

NASA's next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency's ...

Polar auroras (northern lights or aurora borealis in the northern hemisphere and southern lights or aurora australis in the ...

Especially when that backyard happens to be California. Palomar Mountain State Park sits like a crown jewel in San Diego County, a verdant paradise that seems almost out of place amid Southern ...

Allegany State Park in Salamanca, New York is nature’s answer to your urban hangover – a 65,000-acre slice of wilderness that proves New York isn’t just concrete canyons and dollar pizza. Let me tell ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.

So it’s confession time: I’ve been lying to you. I’ve said on many occasions that our Milky Way galaxy has a flat disk (like in this column or this one). But it’s not really flat—not even for a ...

The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of innumerable stars. But that’s just the visible light. Observing the sky in ...