Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of a rare cosmic traveler: 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet hurtling through our ...

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...

In an innovative mission, two spacecraft fly in precision formation to block the sun, giving scientists a particular view for ...

Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of a rare celestial visitor: a comet from beyond our Solar System. Officially named ...

The newly discovered interstellar visitor is just the third of its kind and fascinates astronomers who hope to learn from it ...

We live in a world defined by inches, feet and miles (or centimeters, meters and kilometers, if you prefer), and it’s not difficult for most of us to ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

One fascinating discovery was the detection of vast clouds of gas extending far beyond the main star-forming regions. These ...

But an international team of astronomers have detected the unmistakable signature of a gas giant planet orbiting the ...

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