Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

First, the extra peanut-packed Snickers Extreme bar returned to shelves. Then, it announced the M&M’s Fan Vote would return ...

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Looking ahead, the comet will pass roughly 33 million miles from Jupiter in March 2026. Loeb noted the scientific value: monitoring 3I/ATLAS with the Juno spacecraft could reveal unusual activity, ...

3I/ATLAS came within 168 million miles of Earth around midnight CST Friday. While that might seem pretty far away, the ...

Discover the highlights of the Northern Hemisphere’s winter night sky with our guide to the top celestial sights to enjoy through binoculars between November 2025 and January 2026. Winter in the ...

Milky Way is bringing back a previously discontinued fan-favorite with a new look and a new name, but all the same ingredients as the original. The simpler spinoff was such a hit that it earned its ...

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 ...