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

Plus, with Saturn making its return to the night sky next week after spending the last few months as a 'morning star', the ...

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

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

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds—or Fermi bubbles—at the Milky ...

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...

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

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity ...

Astronomers have discovered a new interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, which is believed to be the oldest comet ever observed. The comet is estimated to be around 7 billion years old.

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

Researchers have discovered cold hydrogen clouds within superheated Fermi bubbles at the Milky Way's center, challenging ...