It's too soon to know whether the object is a rocky asteroid or an icy comet, or how big and what shape it is.

Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system.Scientists have ...

It's only the third time that experts have spotted an object in the Milky Way that's come from a different solar system. Find ...

Advances and the arrival of new technologies have allowed astronomy, the science that studies celestial bodies and phenomena ...

All eyes are on Comet 3I/Atlas as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system ...

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...

Scientists at ESA have spotted A11pl3Z, a possible interstellar object near Jupiter. Though it’s heading towards Earth, ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

Astronomers from the University of New Mexico, along with U.S. and international researchers, have confirmed the existence of ...

The decade-long wait for U.K. astronomers ends as the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals dazzling first images.