Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

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 ...

Newly Discovered 'Jellyfish Galaxy' Stunned Astronomers and Could Reveal a Chapter of Galactic Evolution Data from the James ...

This week, astronomers spotted the third known interstellar visitor to our Solar System. First detected by the Asteroid ...

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

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 ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

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

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

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.