Astronomers have spotted an object from outside our solar system bolting toward the Sun at around 150,000 mph (240,000 km/h).

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

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

It appears our solar system is getting more popular with out-of-towners. Astronomers have found a third interstellar object, ...

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

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

"Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!" the agency's ...

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

The host star, HIP 67522, is slightly larger and cooler than our Sun. But unlike our middle-aged star, this one is just 17 ...

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering ...

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

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...