Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

In 2032, a rare astronomical event may unfold, as asteroid 2024 YR4 could collide with the Moon, resulting in a once-in-5,000 ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has settled into low-Earth orbit, providing a wellspring of publicly available space data.

Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Sedna will reach its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, providing a remarkable space-faring opportunity that won’t come ...

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...

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

The object 9.1 billion light-years away, named FRB 20230521B, now holds the record for the most distant FRB ever recorded.

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...