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 ...

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

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

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

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

The Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Solar Physics have captured footage showing intense solar flare activity, coinciding with heat waves sweeping ...

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

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

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

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