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After a year without any easily visible comets, two have arrived at once. On Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) will show in both the evening and morning skies in the constellation Ursa Major, while Comet SWAN (C/2025 R2)…

The snow-flecked peaks surrounding the village of Hanle are bathed in golden light as the sun sets. In the valley, 28-year-old Tsering Dolkar secures a telescope to its tripod and focuses the lens beneath a clear sky.

Zipped into warm jackets the…

It is worth staying up for this pleasing view of the moon as it encounters Jupiter and the brightest stars of Gemini, the twins. The chart shows the view looking east from London at 00:30 BST in the very early morning of 14 October.

Gemini will…

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial…

Lindsay points toward an important issue: the disconnect between research on the sensory processing of complex, natural visual information and…

A recent study of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has detected several organic compounds that had never been recorded there before. The findings, published this month in Nature Astronomy, provide new clues about the interior chemical…