Around seven asteroids or comets are though to hit Saturn ever year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it seems ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...

Astronomers in Hawaiʻi detected the solar system's third interstellar object, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, which poses no threat to ...

Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...

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

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

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

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

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Astronomers discovered that C/2014 UN271, a massive comet more than 10 times larger than any known comet, is emitting jets of ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...