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 ...

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

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

Formed around a distant star elsewhere in the Milky Way, it is an interstellar wanderer, not a merely interplanetary one.

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

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

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