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A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past the Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years.

Because of astronomy, we know that we live in a vast galaxy inside a vast universe, and that we’re literally made of atoms from the stars.

Waikato Regional Council has approved a total of $248,401.81 to nine community groups for projects that directly benefit the environment or provide environmental education. The council received its highest number of applications to the 2023/24 funding round ...

To all intents, Hamas suddenly sprang out from behind the Oort Cloud on October 7 as a force of incomprehensible evil... Just when some important items on Israel’s agenda had been proceeding more or less according to plan. With strong backing from ...

Hubble took some great pictures of Comet 2I/Borisov, the first confirmed interstellar comet to enter our Solar System (that we know of.)

On July 19, 1952, Palomar Observatory was undertaking a photographic survey of the night sky.

Vanishing Act More than 80 years ago, astronomers were doing a photographic survey of the night sky when something odd happened: three bright stars that had been there at one point vanished less than an hour later, never to be seen again. As Universe Today flagged in a recent blog, a not-yet-peer-reviewed study by an […]

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Astronomers may have detected a dozen large objects lurking beyond the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system, suggesting there could be another equally massive, "second Kuiper Belt" hiding beyond the orbit of Pluto.

Astronomers may have detected a dozen large objects lurking beyond the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system, suggesting there could be another equally massive, "second Kuiper Belt" hiding beyond the orbit of Pluto.