The astronomical community is abuzz over a newly discovered "interstellar object," only the third of its kind ever seen, ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

After running a new kind of computer simulation, scientists believe the comet originated from a rarely seen corner of the ...

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

The ATLAS (short for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) is a NASA-funded program developed by the University of ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...