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 ...

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.

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

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...