Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) will make its closest approach to Earth at a distance of 0.596 AU (about 89 million km / 55 million miles) on October 21, 2025, before reaching perihelion on November 8 at 0.529 AU (79 million km) from the Sun.
Gold may not come from where you think. According to new research, some of the gold found in objects like phones and laptops could have been forged in violent magnetar explosions billions of years ago.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025, capturing images of its elongated, lumpy bowling pin shape. The flyby, conducted as a test for upcoming Jupiter Trojan asteroid missions, revealed the asteroid’s dimensions as approximately 8 km (5 miles) in length and 3.5 km (2 miles) in width.
Astronomers have detected the fastest atmospheric jet stream ever recorded, with winds reaching 33 000 km/h (20 505 mph), on the gas giant exoplanet WASP-127b, located over 500 light-years from Earth.
As British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England's throne, a grouping of stars was waging its own contentious skirmish — a star war far away in the Orion Nebula. The stars were battling each other in a gravitational…
