For folks in the United States, July evenings mean 4th of July fireworks. While you're waiting for the show, be sure to watch ...

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the sky ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

Astronomers have announced the discovery of A11pl3Z, a massive new interstellar object entering our solar system.

Comet or asteroid heading for the Sun is only the third time an interstellar object has been spotted inside our group of ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

When astronomers first discovered exoplanets, they found massive ones orbiting large stars. The technology to detect smaller planets around low-mass, dim red dwarfs took time to develop. By the ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.