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Astronomers are watching a new comet pass through our solar system with great interest. Based on its glow, the 33-billion-ton ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that ...

Imagine walking into a room at night, turning out all the lights and closing the shades. Yet an eerie glow comes from the walls, ceiling, and floor. The faint light is barely enough to see your hands ...