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

I/ATLAS isn't just fascinating because it is the third interstellar visitor found in the solar system; new research suggests ...

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 ...

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...

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

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

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of a white dwarf wiped out by a double-detonation supernova, also providing ...

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