Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...

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

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 ...

In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.

Back in 2010, scientists spotted something shocking: a pair of gigantic, glowing lobes of gas bursting from the Milky Way’s ...

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

The under construction ESO Extremely Large Telescope in Chile was captured in 2025 and 2023 with the sun rising behind it. See both time-lapses here. Credit: E. Garcés/B. Häußler/ESO | edited by Space ...

The third object known to have entered the Solar System from interstellar space has an origin unlike either of its ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

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