The latest visitor from deep space is leaving a mark that stretches far beyond its icy core. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is ...

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The night sky may appear like an inky black canvas, but astronomers are still attempting to answer the questions: “how dark can the night sky get?” and “will there be any light leftover after that?” ...

While NASA's James Webb Telescope and other instruments have already spotted abundant water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon ...

From Dean Devlin, the creative mind behind Independence Day and Stargate, comes a new sci-fi adventure set in deep space. The Ark takes place 100 years in the future, as the crew of the Ark One sets ...

Someone forgot to turn the lights out. Astronomers have detected a residual “ghostly glow,” tainting the near pitch blackness of the sky, after painstakingly analyzing 200,000 images captured by the ...

How dark is space? That’s a question that some astronomers are trying to answer. To do so, they sorted through 200,000 archival images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and made tens of thousands of ...

I/ATLAS, a rare visitor from beyond the solar system, has revealed an unexpected signal. Scientists at the European Space ...

A group of astronomers sorted through 200,000 images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in order to look for any residual background glow in the sky. The highly-ambitious project called SKYSURF, found ...

The New Horizons spacecraft has spotted an ultraviolet glow that seems to emanate from near the edge of the solar system. That glow may come from a long-sought wall of hydrogen that represents where ...

Researchers using data from the Hubble Space Telescope have made a strange discovery: a “ghostly light” surrounding our solar system. When light from stars, planets, and even the glow of starlight ...