I/ATLAS was first spotted by NASA scientists in May this year. Ever since, it has displayed behaviors that are not just ...

A young sun threatened to gobble up everything that was swirling around it. But then Jupiter started to take shape and grow, and as it did so, it created different zones that caught the material that ...

Astronomers have found GJ 251 c, a rocky planet. It is a super-Earth located only 18 light-years away. This planet is in its ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

Only three confirmed interstellar objects have ever passed through our Solar System: the asteroid Oumuamua and the comets ...

Rogue planets do not orbit around a star, but instead wander through the galaxy aimlessly. NASA estimates there are billions ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

A chat with former Halo Wars creator James Miller about his new space 4X, which strikes a careful balance between realism and ...

Astronomers at the Center for Research in Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC) at the University of A Coruña, ...

The debate surrounding the interstellar visitor's origins reflects a broader shift in space science: a growing willingness to ...