Astronomers have spotted a new interstellar object — the third of its kind ever seen — shooting towards us through the solar ...

The scientific and cultural impact of 3I/ATLAS over the coming months and years will serve as an exemplar of what astronomy ...

The collisions will happen under enough heat and pressure to melt protons and neutrons and release their components (quarks ...

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but. The object’s trajectory revealed it to be a much rarer visitor than first ...

“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

This hidden matter has been mapped using FRBs, intense millisecond-long pulses from galaxies located far away. With the help of 70 FRBs, which included one from 9 billion light years away, the ...

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

During those very early moments of the universe, things were extraordinarily hot, and quark-gluon plasma behaves in strange ...

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

University of Arizona astrophysicist Erika Hamden takes readers on a romp through a "Weird Universe" in her debut popular ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in ...