Astronomers in Hawaiʻi detected the solar system's third interstellar object, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, which poses no threat to ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn ever year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it seems ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery: a massive, shining object racing through our solar system. The object, which was ...

Scientists are still trying to understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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