"The detection of heavy water … proves the water's ancient heritage and provides a missing link between clouds, disks, comets ...

Astronomers are watching a new comet pass through our solar system with great interest. Based on its glow, the 33-billion-ton ...

If you’ve ever wanted to know what you’re actually looking at, or just wanted to find cool things like the International ...

The Orionids — one of two major meteor showers caused by remnants from Halley’s comet — will peak with the arrival of a new ...

The object is known as 2025 SC79, and it is 700 meters (2,297 feet) across. It goes around the Sun every 128 days, and it even crosses the orbit of Mercury. First observed on September 27, this object ...

Just a few weeks ago, we crossed the significant milestone of 6,000 known exoplanets. The counter keeps getting higher, and there are 8,000 more candidates waiting for confirmation. In the decades ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of planet formation around a distant young star, HOPS-315, ...

A new study sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy and why the life and death of nearby stars are ...

When an unknown object from the depths of interstellar space tumbles through our cosmic neighbourhood, it is bound to capture ...